decorationBarça’s sporting director, is clear that if the club had financial muscle its priority objective would be one of the revelations of the last campaign: Florian Wirtz (21 years old), with a contract with Bayer Leverkusen until 2027, as MD revealed in its yesterday’s edition. The midfielder is also a big Barça fan since he was little.
In an interview in Sky Sport Germanyalready revealed two years ago that “I always wanted to be the best, as a child I dreamed of playing in the Barça and that has not changed”, although he clarified that “it can still wait”, in relation to wearing the Barça shirt. And there is proof of it. Wirtz He keeps photographs of him as a child wearing the Barça shirt.
The player also confessed that “he had some posters hanging in the room, like those of Messi, Dembele either Aubameyang” and that “my first shirt was Messi’s with Argentina. When I was little, he was the best player, no one could play like him.”
The culé connection is strengthened with Hansi Flick. Wirtz He made his debut for the Germany national team on September 2, 2021. He came on as a substitute in a qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup against Liechtenstein. The Germans won 2-0 and Wirtz He became one of the youngest players to debut. The now Barça coach was then the coach.
The ex of Bayern opened a new stage in the Mannschaft and in that meeting he began to show his brushstrokes and his purposes. One of his first bets was, precisely, Wirtzformed in the lower categories of the Colognewho entered the field instead of Joshua Kimmichalso on the culé agenda but for this same season.
Florian Wirtz, wearing a Barça shirt when he was little
Florian Wirtz, with the trophy for the best player in the Bundesliga 2023-24
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