PauCubarsí

A single club goal from sixty-eight appearances tells you what Pau Cubarsí is asked to do at FC Barcelona: defend, not decorate. The centre-back joined the senior side in 2024, and his output maps almost entirely onto the defensive half. For Spain he has won seventeen caps without scoring. That profile, a teenage defender trusted repeatedly at club and national level, is the essential thing about him. The 2025/26 season is the campaign in which that record sits.

His step up came in two stages. Nine appearances for FC Barcelona Atlètic preceded the move to the first team in 2024. Since then the 19-year-old has accumulated those sixty-eight Barcelona outings, while his international caps have arrived in parallel. A defender with one goal at club level is not a player being used as an attacking outlet; he is a player being picked for the unglamorous work, and the numbers say he keeps getting picked.