{"id":776,"date":"2025-03-10T22:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2025-03-10T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:11:42","slug":"barcelona-will-play-in-honour-of-late-doctor-says-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/barcelona-will-play-in-honour-of-late-doctor-says-flick\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona will play in honour of late doctor, says Flick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said his team will face Benfica in the Champions League on Tuesday playing for club doctor Carles Minarro, who died on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Catalan giants hold a 1-0 lead in the last 16 tie from the first leg in Lisbon ahead of the clash at the Olympic Stadium. Barcelona&#8217;s La Liga match on Saturday against Osasuna was postponed 20 minutes before kick-off after the 53-year-old doctor died that afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge loss, Carles was a really great person, but also a great doctor, and this combination of Ricard (Pruna, another club doctor) and him was unbelievable for the club and for the team,&#8221; Flick told a news conference Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;(He was) one of the big puzzle (pieces) for the success, because they are doing a great job, and we miss him, but it&#8217;s also life. I think he will support us from above. The team also, we want to play\u2026 for him. Now in this situation, it&#8217;s very important that we win, and this is the focus, what we want to do tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctor Minarro had been working with different Barcelona sides since 2017, and began working with the men&#8217;s football first team a few months ago. Barcelona beat Benfica 5-4 in Lisbon in the group stage and then again with 10 men for most of the game last week after Pau Cubarsi was sent off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Flick said his squad would not take progress to the quarter-finals as a given, with Benfica beating Juventus on the road in the group stage and thrashing Atletico Madrid at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;None of us thinks that it&#8217;s done, and this is the important thing,&#8221; continued the coach. &#8220;Their away matches in the Champions League, they are doing really great, they won a lot of matches away. So we have to think about that and take care.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/barcelona\/benfica\/2025270886\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said his team will face Ben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}