TER STEGEN, ONE STEP AWAY FROM A HISTORICAL RECORD
Ter Stegen, on the verge of equaling Zubizarreta's record with Barça
With the next match against Real Sociedad, Marc-André ter Stegen can get even further into the history of FC Barcelona. The goalkeeper will reach 410 games with the culé jersey and will equal a record held by the legendary Barça goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta
Marc-André ter Stegen is about to to reach a historical milestone in the FC Barcelona when equalising the record of parties contested of Andoni Zubizarreta. The German goalkeeper, the one who arrived to the Catalan club in 2014 pertinent of the Borussia Mönchengladbach, has been an indiscutido in the goal culé during these years, standing out by his security under the three sticks and his skill to play with the feet.
With his next party in front of the Real Sociedad, the '1' culé will equalise the 410 apparitions that Zubizarreta accumulated during his successful stage in the City Condal. It is necessary to remember that Andoni went in in the Barcelona history in 1994 when ousting to the mythical Antoni Ramallets, until that then the guardameta with elder visited in the institution culé, with 387 meetings. Years later, in 2011, would be Víctor Valdés the one who would reach the mark of Zubizarreta and would elevate the register until the 535 commitments.
It is worthwhile to mention that the cancerbero germano fichó by the Barça in May in return of 12 million euros. In his starts had some problems to strengthen in the goal blaugrana, because of some important errors in several meetings, as the one of the Champions in front of the Rome. This motivated to that it lost the place to hands of Claudio Bravo; however, it knew to replace and it finish winning him the pulse to the Chilean, the one who finished leaving to the Manchester City.
The statistics of ter Stegen with the Barça
The guardameta has contested 409 official meetings, adding 269 victories (65,7%), 75 ties (18,3%) and 65 defeats (15,8%). During this period, has fit 404 annotations and has left his goal imbatida in 171 occasions (41,8%). By competitions, has 279 commitments of League, 84 of the League of Champions, 28 of the Glass of Rey, nine of the Supercopa of Spain, eight of the League Europe and one of the Supercopa of Europe, accumulating like this 16 collective titles.
