{"id":2805,"date":"2026-09-12T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:15:20","slug":"watch-in-form-la-liga-striker-admits-dream-of-playing-for-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2805","title":{"rendered":"Watch: In-form La Liga striker admits dream of playing for Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The summer transfer window saw <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">FC Barcelona<\/a> bid goodbye to their two main centre-forwards: Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres, without signing a top-quality replacement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Julian Alvarez had been the Catalans\u2019 priority target to reinforce the No. 9 position, but Atletico Madrid refused to sell the Argentine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>While it has become well-known at this point that Alvarez dreams of playing for Barcelona, another <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> forward seems to share the same career goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Indeed, a video has surfaced in which Yassir Zabiri of Racing Santander confesses his admiration for the <em>Blaugrana<\/em> and admits that he dreams of playing for the La Liga champions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u201cMy objective is to play for Bar\u00e7a. I\u2019ve been a fan of Bar\u00e7a since I was a child. When I was little, I really loved Bar\u00e7a,\u201d<\/strong> the Moroccan striker revealed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u201cMy whole family supports FC Barcelona. Messi is a legend. I mainly watched Suarez, and also Griezmann, whose profile as a left-footer is very similar to mine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Zabiri has burst onto the La Liga scene in spectacular fashion having joined Racing Santander on loan from Rennes in the summer after representing Morocco at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 21-year-old has scored five goals in five league matches, putting him second in the La Liga scoring charts behind Bar\u00e7a captain Raphinha and level with Sergio Camello and Roberto Fernandez.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Zabiri has scored five in five games for Racing. (Photo by Juan Manuel Serrano Arce\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He has found the net once every 56 minutes so far this season, rapidly becoming the newly-promoted La Liga club\u2019s main attacking reference point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Barcelona\u2019s popularity in Morocco is well established, and Zabiri, as per his admission, grew up following the club closely. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>His current form has now brought him into the spotlight, although there is no indication yet that his career will take him to the Spotify Camp Nou. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 21-year-old Moroccan international\u2019s loan at Racing will end once the season is over, at which point he is expected to return to Rennes, where he is under contract until 2029.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/watch-in-form-la-liga-striker-admits-dream-of-playing-for-barcelona-43447309\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer transfer window saw FC Barcelona bid goodbye to their two main centre-forwards: Robert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434473093Fdate2026-09-12.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}