Marc Cucurella

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In this Spanish name, the family name is Cucurella.

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Marc Cucurella
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Cucurella playing for Getafe in 2019
Personal information
Full name Marc Cucurella Saseta[1]
Date of birth (1998-07-22) 22 July 1998 (age 25)[2]
Place of birth Alella, Spain
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Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 32
Youth career
2006–2012 Espanyol
2012–2017 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2018 Barcelona B 48 (1)
2017–2020 Barcelona 0 (0)
2018–2019 → Eibar (loan) 31 (1)
2019–2020 → Getafe (loan) 37 (1)
2020–2021 Getafe 38 (3)
2021–2022 Brighton & Hove Albion 35 (1)
2022– Chelsea 24 (0)
International career‡
2014 Spain U16 3 (0)
2014–2015 Spain U17 16 (2)
2016–2017 Spain U19 6 (0)
2016 Spain U20 6 (0)
2019–2021 Spain U21 11 (1)
2021 Spain U23 6 (0)
2021– Spain 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:38, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Marc Cucurella Saseta (born 22 July 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Chelsea and the Spain national team.

Cucurella made his senior club debut at Barcelona, but spent most of his time there in the reserve team. He went on to play over 100 La Liga games for Eibar and Getafe, before joining Brighton & Hove Albion in 2021. He spent a season with Brighton before joining Chelsea in 2022.

Cucurella was capped for Spain over every youth level from under-16 to under-23, winning the silver medal with the latter at the 2020 Olympic tournament. He made his debut for the senior team in 2021.

Club career

Barcelona

Cucurella was born in Alella, Barcelona, Catalonia.[4] He started playing futsal with FS Alella before joining Espanyol's youth teams in 2006,[5] and in 2012, he moved to Barcelona.[6] On 26 November 2016, while still a junior, he made his senior debut with the reserves by starting in a 4–0 home win over L'Hospitalet in the Segunda División B.[7]

Cucurella contributed with 17 appearances for the side, achieving promotion to the Segunda División via the play-offs.[citation needed] On 7 July 2017, he renewed his contract until 2021, with a €12 million clause.[8] He made his professional debut on 1 September, starting in a 2–2 away draw against Granada.[9] He made his first-team debut on 24 October, coming on as a late substitute for Lucas Digne in a 3–0 Copa del Rey away win against Real Murcia.[10] He scored his first senior goal for Barcelona B on 17 March 2018, equalising in a draw away to Lorca.[11]

On 31 August 2018, Cucurella was loaned to fellow La Liga club SD Eibar, for one year with a €2 million buyout clause.[12] He made his top-flight debut on 25 September in a 1–0 loss away to Espanyol. Appearing as one of eight changes by manager José Luis Mendilibar, he was praised by Marca journalist Ander Barroso despite the result.[13] He scored his first La Liga goal on the final day of the season on 9 May 2019, opening the scoring in 2–2 draw at home to his parent club.[14]

Getafe

At the end of his loan, Eibar exercised Cucurella's clause, making him a permanent player for the Basque team; along with the transfer, Barcelona added a €4 million buyback option.[15] On 16 July 2019, after just sixteen days as a permanent Eibar player, this clause was activated,[16] only for him to be loaned to Getafe two days later for the upcoming season, with an option to buy for €6 million and 40% of the rights remaining to Barcelona.[17]

Cucurella made his European debut on 19 September 2019 as a substitute for Kenedy in a 1–0 home win over Trabzonspor in the UEFA Europa League group stage.[18] He played eight games of that campaign, which ended 11 months later with a 2–0 loss on aggregatre to Inter Milan in the last 16.[19]

On 3 March 2020, Getafe triggered his option to buy for €6 million, no longer connecting him to Barcelona.[20] The club fully exercised his option to buy on 30 June.[21]

Brighton & Hove Albion

On 31 August 2021, Cucurella joined Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion on a five-year contract.[22] He made his debut for Brighton on 11 September, starting and playing 82 minutes before being substituted in the 1–0 away win over Brentford.[23] Eight days later, he made his home debut, playing the whole of the 2–1 victory over Leicester City.[24] His chipped cross set up Danny Welbeck's headed equaliser in added time, finishing 1–1 away to Chelsea on 29 December.[25] On 7 May 2022, he scored his first goal for the club; he netted the second of a 4–0 win over Manchester United by shooting from Leandro Trossard's pull back.[26] Three days later, at the club's end of season awards, Cucurella won Players' Player of the Season as well as being voted Player of the Season.[27]

Chelsea

On 5 August 2022, Cucurella signed for Premier League club Chelsea on a six-year contract.[28] The fee was reported to be worth an initial £55 million, potentially rising to £62 million in add-ons,[29] which was a record fee received by Brighton.[30] On 6 August, he made his debut as a substitute in a 1–0 away win against Everton in the Premier League.[31] On 7 March 2023, he was named Player of the Match in the Champions League round of 16 second leg match against Borussia Dortmund, which ended in a 2–0 win and qualification to the quarter-final.[32]

International career

On 25 March 2019, Cucurella debuted as a substitute for the non-FIFA Catalonia team in a 2–1 win over Venezuela in Girona. He was one of several new faces due to some clubs not releasing their players for the game.[33]

In November 2020, manager Luis Enrique called up Cucurella to the senior Spain squad for UEFA Nations League games against Switzerland and Germany, as José Gayà was injured.[34] He did not leave the bench for the fixtures.[35]

Due to the isolation of some national team players following the positive COVID-19 test of Sergio Busquets, Spain's under-21 squad were called up for the international friendly against Lithuania on 8 June 2021.[36] Cucurella made his absolute debut, acting as captain, in this match that Spain won 4-0.[37]

Cucurella was part of the Spain under-23 team that won the silver medal at the 2020 Olympic Games, that took place in 2021 due to the previous year's postponement as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[38][39]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 18 April 2023[40]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup[lower-alpha 1] League Cup[lower-alpha 2] Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Barcelona B 2016–17 Segunda División B 11 0 — — — 6[lower-alpha 3] 0 17 0
2017–18 Segunda División 37 1 — — — — 37 1
Total 48 1 — — — 6 0 54 1
Barcelona 2017–18 La Liga 0 0 1 0 — 0 0 — 1 0
Eibar (loan) 2018–19 La Liga 31 1 2 1 — 0 0 — 33 2
Getafe (loan) 2019–20 La Liga 37 1 1 0 — 7[lower-alpha 4] 0 — 45 1
Getafe 2020–21 La Liga 37 3 2 0 — — — 39 3
2021–22 La Liga 1 0 0 0 — — — 1 0
Total 75 4 3 0 — 7 0 — 85 4
Brighton & Hove Albion 2021–22 Premier League 35 1 2 0 1 0 — — 38 1
Chelsea 2022–23 Premier League 24 0 0 0 1 0 8[lower-alpha 5] 0 — 33 0
Career total 213 7 8 1 2 0 15 0 6 0 244 8
  1. ↑ Includes Copa del Rey, FA Cup
  2. ↑ Includes EFL Cup
  3. ↑ Appearances in Segunda División B play-offs
  4. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  5. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Champions League

International

As of match played 8 June 2021[41]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Spain 2021 1 0
Total 1 0

Honours

Spain U23

Individual

References

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