{"id":497453,"date":"2026-01-12T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/cancelo-passes-the-medical-examination-with-barca-and-will-be-presented-this-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:24:24","slug":"cancelo-passes-the-medical-examination-with-barca-and-will-be-presented-this-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/cancelo-passes-the-medical-examination-with-barca-and-will-be-presented-this-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancelo passes the medical examination with Bar\u00e7a and will be presented this Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app.powerbeans.ai\/redirect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\nBarcelona (EFE).- Portuguese full-back Joao Cancelo, who arrived in the Catalan capital this Monday, has passed the mandatory medical examination and will sign his contract with Hansi Flick&#8217;s team until the end of the season.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/futbol\/el-real-madrid-destituye-a-xabi-alonso-y-elige-a-arbeloa-como-su-sustituto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Madrid dismisses Xabi Alonso and chooses Arbeloa as his replacement<\/a><br><br>Cancelo, 31 years old, will be presented at 12:00 GMT at the commercial office of the <a href=\"https:\/\/efe.com\/deportes\/2024-06-30\/barcelona-salida-marcos-alonso-futbol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0FC Barcelona<\/a>. Upon his arrival, he said he was \u00abvery happy\u00bb to return to the Blaugrana team, where he already played on loan from Manchester City in the 2023-2024 season, and to which he now returns to cover the long-term absence of central defender Andreas Christensen.<\/p>\n\n\nThe Portuguese player signed for six seasons with Manchester City in 2019, but left on loan in 2023 to Bayern Munich, a club where he played for five months.\n\nSubsequently, he returned to the Manchester team, where he did not have a prominent role. Between September 2023 and June 2024, he played with Bar\u00e7a &#8211; then managed by Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez &#8211; on loan and in August 2024 he was transferred to Al-Hilal Saudi.\n\nHis versatility, as he can play on both flanks of the defense, has convinced Hansi Flick.<a href=\"https:\/\/efecomunica.efe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AgenciaEFEnoticias\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EFEnoticias\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/efe_noticias\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/efe\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/efeagenciaefe\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@efenoticias\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/efe.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona (EFE).- Portuguese full-back Joao Cancelo, who arrived in the Catalan capital this Monday, has passed the mandatory medical examination and will sign his contract with Hansi Flick&#8217;s team until the end of the season. You may be interested in: Real Madrid dismisses Xabi Alonso and chooses Arbeloa as his replacement Cancelo, 31 years old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,40853],"class_list":["post-497453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25pr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}