{"id":17588,"date":"2026-01-21T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/emotional-farewell-message-from-ter-stegen-to-barcelona_315810_102\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:10:00","slug":"emotional-farewell-message-from-ter-stegen-to-barcelona_315810_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/emotional-farewell-message-from-ter-stegen-to-barcelona_315810_102.html","title":{"rendered":"Emotional farewell message from Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen to Bar\u00e7a"},"content":{"rendered":"
FC Barcelona<\/strong> and Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen<\/strong> parted ways after 11 and a half seasons on Tuesday night. The Blaugrana team closed the loan of the German goalkeeper<\/a> to Girona FC<\/strong> for six months and, after the agreement was made official, the ‘1’ and now former Blaugrana captain shared an emotional message on his social media to say goodbye to the club.<\/p> With a “see you soon”<\/strong>, ‘Mats’ closed his chapter as a Bar\u00e7a goalkeeper, after 11 and a half years in which he played 423 official matches and won 20 titles. The M\u00f6nchengladbach native thanked the support of a locker room that always considered him a leader and a benchmark, beyond his limited playing time in recent months.<\/p> Ter Stegen had already said goodbye to the Bar\u00e7a squad and coaching staff on Monday, prior to the team’s trip to Prague to face Slavia<\/a>. On Tuesday afternoon, the 33-year-old underwent his medical examination and, as of Wednesday, he will be training under M\u00edchel <\/strong>at Girona. <\/p> Marc-Andr\u00e9 arrived in Barcelona in the summer of 2014 from the club where he developed, **Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach**, for 12 million euros. During his first two seasons, he shared the Bar\u00e7a goal with **Claudio Bravo**, with the Chilean being the starter in LaLiga and ‘Mats’ the number 1 in the Champions League and Copa del Rey.<\/p> From the 2016\/17 season onwards, the German took over the position definitively, retaining undisputed starting status until the beginning of the 2024\/25 season. A serious knee injury forced him to miss almost the entire season and, after the good work of **Wojciech Szczesny** in the second half of the season, **Hansi Flick** kept the Pole as the starter after the captain’s return.<\/p> Ter Stegen finishes the longest cycle of his career<\/h2>