Marc Cucurella was one of many stars of the night time for Chelsea as they beat FC Barcelona 3-0 earlier this week within the UEFA Champions League.
, the 27-year-old left-back had the Barça recreation marked in crimson on his calendar, given his historical past with the Catalan membership.
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In spite of everything, he had spent a number of years inside the Blaugrana setup however by no means received a correct shot at first-team soccer, departing solely after one solitary senior look.
Cucurella talks about Barcelona exit
Talking within the ‘Informe Plus’ programme, that can air on 1 December, beneath the title ‘Cucu… Cucurella’, the Chelsea star mirrored on his departure from Barcelona.
“Not being given the chance hurts slightly. I felt dangerous about it, nevertheless it made me develop loads,” Cucurella stated, as quoted by .
“All the pieces I’ve achieved thus far, maybe, if the choice had been completely different, I wouldn’t have achieved all the pieces I’ve now,” he added.
Cucurella left Barcelona completely in 2020. (Picture by Julian Finney/Getty Photographs)
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Within the preview of the programme, Gerard Lopez, who coached Cucurella in Barcelona’s B group, additionally spoke in regards to the left-back’s time on the membership.
“At membership conferences, planning conferences and conferences to debate younger gamers’ choices for promotion to the primary group, I at all times defended him,” stated Lopez.
“Simply as I did with Grimaldo. I believed that they have been left-backs who, if given the possibility to be within the first group calmly to let Jordi Alba do his factor, however later hand over to a homegrown participant, I used to be satisfied that both of them might do it.”
As talked about earlier, Cucurella made just one senior look for Barcelona, which got here in a Copa del Rey match towards Actual Murcia in 2017 beneath Ernesto Valverde.
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Cucurella was by no means known as up once more by Valverde, and he ended up leaving for Eibar on mortgage the next summer season.
After impressing, he joined the membership completely, just for Barça to re-sign him and mortgage him to Getafe, who made the switch everlasting a 12 months later in 2020.