{"id":1163887,"date":"2026-02-23T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163887"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:25:00","slug":"fc-barcelona-joao-cancelo-declares-his-love-for-his-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/fc-barcelona-joao-cancelo-declares-his-love-for-his-teammates\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona: Jo\u00e3o Cancelo declares his love for his teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona: Jo\u00e3o Cancelo declares his love for his teammates<\/p>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s locker room is the best according to Jo\u00e3o Cancelo<\/p>\n<p>FC Barcelona: Jo\u00e3o Cancelo declares his love for his teammates<\/p>\n<p><strong>This winter, Jo\u00e3o Cancelo is finally all smiles as he returns to Catalonia. On Sunday afternoon, against Levante, FC Barcelona got the job done during <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/foot-africa.com\/en\/news\/barca-lamine-yamal-unhappy-after-being-subbed-off-against-levante-flick-downplays-the-incident-1097381\/\"><strong>this 25th La Liga matchday (3-0)<\/strong><\/a><strong>, with a convincing victory and reclaiming first place in the standings, overtaking Real Madrid (2nd).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the final whistle, Jo\u00e3o Cancelo, who provided the assist for Bar\u00e7a\u2019s second goal, sent a heartfelt message to his teammates. <em>\u201cThis is the best locker room I\u2019ve ever had in my career. It was already like this in 2023. That\u2019s also partly why I came back,\u201d<\/em> he revealed, after his stint in Saudi Arabia with Al-Hilal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2025640233698542035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Hansi Flick hasn\u2019t started him often in La Liga this season\u2014just two appearances in the starting eleven\u2014the Portuguese full-back once again proved on home turf just how valuable his attacking contribution is to the German coach\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/fc-barcelona-jo-o-cancelo-082500101.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/fc-barcelona-jo-o-cancelo-082500101.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona: Jo\u00e3o Cancelo declares his love for his teammates Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s locker room is the best according to Jo\u00e3o Cancelo FC Barcelona: Jo\u00e3o Cancelo declares&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1163888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}