La Liga: Barcelona full signing of Mexican full-back Julian Araujo from LA Galaxy

La Liga facet Barcelona has accomplished the signing of Mexican full-back Julian Araujo from MLS membership LA Galaxy. The 21-year-old joins the membership on a three-and-a-half yr deal.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 18, 2023 08:58 IST

Barcelona signal Mexican full-back Julian Araujo (AP)

By India Today Web Desk: La Liga facet Barcelona has accomplished the signing of Mexican full-back Julian Araujo from MLS membership LA Galaxy. The 21-year-old joins the membership on a three-and-a-half yr deal.

The Southern California native will play proper again for Barcelona’s ‘B’ workforce. Barcelona stated earlier this month that it had tried to signal Araujo however that an unspecified technical glitch meant it had missed the winter market deadline by 18 seconds.

LA Galaxy head coach and sporting director Greg Vanney confirmed Araujo’s transfer to Barcelona, saying that it’s a nice story of a younger child who excelled with LA Galaxy.

“Julian joining FC Barcelona is a great story of a young kid from Southern California coming into the LA Galaxy Academy, through LA Galaxy II and excelling with the first team,” said Vanney.

He went on to wish Araujo the best from the next phase of his career, while stressing how LA Galaxy is focusing on their academy heavily.

“As we proceed to evolve as a membership, we’re leaning closely into the LA Galaxy Academy improvement facet. We are going to assist develop gamers who can play on the greatest golf equipment on the planet, however may assist the LA Galaxy win championships. We want Julián all one of the best within the subsequent part of his profession,” Vanney added.

LA Galaxy has now performed enterprise with Barcelona in back-to-back switch home windows, buying centre-midfielder Riqui Puig final summer season on a free transfer.

A two-time MLS All-Star (2021-22), Araujo shortly established himself as one of many league’s most promising abilities. He made his skilled debut with LA Galaxy as a 17-year-old in 2019, and leaves the membership with one objective and 20 assists in 100 regular-season video games. Araujo performed in 39 video games final season with 35 begins. He had one objective with a career-high 9 assists.

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Feb 18, 2023