{"id":5731,"date":"2025-05-16T21:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballevening.com\/english\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:55:24","slug":"barcelona-announces-the-return-of-its-former-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballevening.com\/english\/5731\/barcelona-announces-the-return-of-its-former-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona announces the return of its former player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spanish club Barcelona announced the return of its former player in an official statement published on social media platforms on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona announced on Thursday the signing of 17-year-old striker Nuhu Fofana from Cornella, who had trained with Barcelona&#8217;s youth teams years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/footballevening.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6825ccc6925a5.r_d.770-887-6172.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footballevening.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6825ccc6925a5.r_d.770-887-6172.jpeg 948w, https:\/\/footballevening.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6825ccc6925a5.r_d.770-887-6172-300x147.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/footballevening.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6825ccc6925a5.r_d.770-887-6172-768x377.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuhu Fofana had a great season at Cornell\u00e0, which earned him a call-up to Barcelona. The striker signed his contract as a Bar\u00e7a player on Thursday alongside Joan Soler, director of youth football, and Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Alexanco, director of youth football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of Malian origin, Nuhu Fofana is a fast and powerful striker whose good performances earned him his first-team debut for Cornell\u00e0. He played in the Copa Catalunya against Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s and also played minutes in a league match against Espanyol B. Fofana has scored six goals in 18 appearances for Juvenil B and two more for Juvenil A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrival of Nuhu Fofana follows the contract renewal of Papa Kourouma, the 16-year-old defender who is considered one of the greatest talents in the La Masia academy and will be a pillar of the youth team next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish club Barcelona announced the return of its former player in an official statement published on social media platforms on Thursday. According to Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona announced on Thursday the signing of 17-year-old striker Nuhu Fofana from Cornella, who had trained with Barcelona&#8217;s youth teams years ago. Nuhu Fofana had a great season at Cornell\u00e0, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Barcelona announces the return of its former player - Football Evening News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/footballevening.com\/english\/5731\/barcelona-announces-the-return-of-its-former-player\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barcelona announces the return of its former player\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spanish club Barcelona announced the return of its former player in an official statement published on social media platforms on Thursday. 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