{"id":77567,"date":"2016-08-10T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/samuel-umtiti-a-different-player-that-loves-to-the-barca_186990_102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:55:20","slug":"samuel-umtiti-a-different-player-that-loves-to-the-barca_186990_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/players\/samuel-umtiti-a-different-player-that-loves-to-the-barca_186990_102.html","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Umtiti, a different player that loves to the Bar\u00e7a"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After his first tuit in Catalan, Samuel Umtiti surprised to many by his fast adaptation and implication in the Bar\u00e7a and Catalonia. However, it does already a month his brother warned that Sam was taking  very seriously his signing<\/h2>  \r\n<div class=\"article-addons\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/calendar-fc-barcelona.html\"\r\n       target=\"_self\"\r\n       title=\"Calendar of FC Barcelona\"\r\n       class=\"blue-gredient-btn\">\r\n       \r\n        Calendar of FC Barcelona    <\/a>\r\n<\/div>   <p>When <strong>Samuel Umtiti said the day of his presentation that his dream was to play in the FC Barcelona<\/strong> was not mintiendo. From very small his Barcelona feeling grew in his heart while it saw to play to the best players of the world in the Barcelona picture. The football, the philosophy and all what surrounds to the Barcelona team enamor\u00f3 from the first day to &#8220;Big Sam&#8221;, that engaged  from the same day of his signing to understand and share what the <strong>Bar\u00e7a<\/strong> represents in Catalonia and the world.<\/p> <p>Thus the arrival of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/tags\/samuel-umtiti.html\">Samuel Umtiti<\/a> to the FC Barcelona<\/strong> did not pose  like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/fc-barcelona\/fichajes.html\">signing<\/a> of a player more. The central of 22 years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/fc-barcelona\/andre-gomes-y-samuel-umtiti-velan-armas-antes-de-su-debut_186985_102.html\">is to little time to fulfil his dream to put  the Barcelona T-shirt<\/a>, and did not want to leave at all in the air. As it advanced his own brother does a month, Samuel looked for since it did  official involve in the philosophy, history and idiosyncrasy of the group cul\u00e9, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/jugadores\/gran-gesto-de-umtiti-primer-tuit-en-catalan-con-el-barca_186989_102.html\">as it could see with his last tuit.<\/a><\/p> <p>&#8220;<strong>Sam is learning Catalan. Robert Fern\u00e1ndez has explained us the philosophy of the club and of Catalonia<\/strong>&#8220;, revealed Yannick Umtiti, brother of the player to the program &#8220;The Graderia&#8221; of the &#8220;Chain Be&#8221;. Also it commented that the player estba very happy and happy in front of the opportunity to play in the best team of the world.<\/p> <p>&#8220;<strong>It is very happy with the opportunity to play in the Bar\u00e7a<\/strong>&#8220;, informed his brother that spoke of the referents that had the new defender cul\u00e9 in the world of the current football. &#8220;<strong>The referents of Sam are Gerard Hammered, Sergio Bouquets (between laughs) and Thiago Silva.<\/strong> Has a very strong personality. It is young but can but learns very fast. It does not put  nervous. That is his strength&#8221;, concluded Yannick.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his first tuit in Catalan, Samuel Umtiti surprised to many by his fast adaptation and implication in the Bar\u00e7a and Catalonia. 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