Barcelona’s club icon hopes for a quick return of the “key player”.
Club icon Gerard Piqué (38) longs for the comeback by national goalkeeper Marc-André Ter Stegen (32) at FC Barcelona. The fact that the keeper returned to the Barca goal as quickly as possible is “very important. Marc is a key player for us,” said Piqué on the sid of a press appointment at the start of his Kings League in Germany: “He has been in the past ten years.”
Six months after his patella tendon tear in the right knee, Ter Stegen had recently returned to team training at Barca. Spanish media speculate that Germany’s number one could play again on April 15-then the Catalans start in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals at Borussia Dortmund.
“When he is fit again, I am sure that he will be very important for the team,” said Piqué, who became world and European champions with Spain and, among other things, won the Champions League four times: “I hope that he will recover that he will no longer have any problems in the future and that he can play for Barca for a few years – because he has shown him there. is.”
Ter Stegen itself wants to return between the posts as soon as possible. He was “physically fit like never” and “full of energy”, he said in the picture podcast “PhraseMäher” and announced to his club coach Hansi Flick: “If I master the stress and all parts of team training, I will already pie the coach so that he knows that I am ready.”