{"id":10522,"date":"2021-07-05T20:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=120714"},"modified":"2021-07-05T20:46:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T15:16:14","slug":"barcelona-captain-vicky-losada-signs-for-manchester-city-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/barcelona-captain-vicky-losada-signs-for-manchester-city-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona captain Vicky Losada signs for Manchester City Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish midfielder has agreed to a two-year deal with the WSL runners-up after leading her hometown club to the treble last season. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cI\u2019m so happy,\u201d Losada exclusively told Sky Sports. \u201cI like the style they\u2019re showing, it can be the most similar to Barca. I want to play in big games, the Champions League and win trophies here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Losada was a key player of the Barcelona side that defeated City and knocked them out of the Champions League last season. This tie would play a much larger part in her future than she was aware of at the time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cI didn\u2019t know this was going to happen but it\u2019s true, I remember talking with the girls in the changing room and saying this is the best team we\u2019ve played this year. <\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">In the end, football is football. The girls will know me soon, I\u2019m a very close person, I can help them with my experience and I look forward to that soon,\u201d Losada told Sky Sports<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Losada was honoured with an emotional send-off by Barcelona after she announced she was leaving. The entire playing staff burst into applause at the end of her farewell press conference. Losada has now been established as a Barcelona legend but she will return for her second Women\u2019s Super League spell after two years at Arsenal a few seasons ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City Women has signed Vicky Losada from Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":32999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,661,177,497,220,773,1950,1951],"class_list":["post-10522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-barcelona","tag-champions-league","tag-city","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-spain","tag-womens-super-league","tag-wsl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}