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Eric García

Spain · the desk

Defence, Spain

Club football at FC Barcelona.

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

  • age

    24

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Defence

    Spain

  • club

    FC Barcelona

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1952

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #50

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    2775′

    35 appearances

  • possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)

    7.03

    100th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Minutes on the pitch for Spain. The goals come or they do not; we log either.

  • goals

    0

  • assists

    0

  • caps

    1

  • minutes

    45′

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad
Spain · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
FC Barcelonafootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board

2025 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

2053 full roster Elo (+28 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

potential ~2064 ±46 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the defence age curve

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Spain's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1974
age curve at 24 (defences' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior
-7
defensive actions in club football, possession-adjustedhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+59
quality rating · club, age + measured output
2025
form: national-team results, 35 appearances2775 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
+28
full roster Elo · with results
2053

Rating trend

-142 over 36 updates

Seeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.

Where the +59 skill term comes from

Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.

measured
7.03 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
his rank
100th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
recent club seasons (api-football), an individual box-stat proxy, possession-adjusted; volume, not a quality verdict
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(99.9th) = 46 × 3.19 × 0.4 (position weight) = +59

Where the +28 was earned

The earned line, opened up by competition. World Cup finals count 1.5×, qualifiers and cups 1×, friendlies and club football half, so a tournament night moves him most.

international friendlies1 app · 45
-2
club football34 apps · 2730
+30

His latest nights

  • 2026-06-04international friendlies · 45 · team result only▼ −2
  • 2026-05-23club football · 62 · team result only▼ −8
  • 2026-05-17club football · 63 · team result only▲ +1
  • 2026-05-10club football · 90 · team result only▲ +5
  • 2026-05-02club football · 82 · team result only▲ +2

Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own match stats, saves for keepers, tackles and duels for defenders, creation for midfielders, finishing up front. “Team result only” marks games where the feed carried no player stats.

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-04. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

  • standing

    #50 of 1424 on our board, top 10% of everyone we rate.

  • best night

    His best night in our ledger: +5 in one sitting, club football, 2025-12-02.

  • vs his seed

    The folded nights have added +28 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€19m€74m €37m

Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.

The workingopenclose
reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill
€8m
club tier 1952the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×5.81
ageage 24, in the fee-peak window (24–27)
×1.00
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×0.58
individual skillmeasured 100th percentile of peers
×1.53
our estimate
€37m

fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.

The fee record · sourced

  • 2024-07-01Girona Barcelonaundisclosed
  • 2023-09-01Barcelona Gironaloan
  • 2021-07-01Manchester City Barcelonafree

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Spain’s record

  • at Uruguay0–1Called it
  • v Saudi Arabia5–0Called it
  • v Cape Verde0–0Missed it

The newsroom’s calls on Spain. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.

Squad · sourced