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title: "Eric Garcia – Profile"
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author: "Domagoj kostanjsak"
section: "Manchester City Football Club"
published: "2020-06-09T15:36:41Z"
modified: "2020-06-09T15:36:41Z"
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# Eric Garcia – Profile

**Name: Eric Garcia**

**Club: Manchester City**

**Date of Birth: 9 January 2001**

**Position: Centre-back/ Full-back**

## **Eric Garcia – his career so far**

Even though he still hasn’t completely fought his way into **Pep Guardiola’s** plans at **Manchester City**, **Eric Garcia** is certainly already staking his claim at the *Etihad* and is quite a well-known quantity in the footballing world.

But still, he is not a product of the **Manchester City** academy since the now 19-year-old has been training in **Barcelona’s** famed *La Masia* during the first steps of his footballing career. From the Catalans’ youth ranks, the young defender managed to reach the U17 squad but with no clear path of progression and limited chances to develop, he decided to leave for the *Etihad* in the summer of 2017.

Since then, he has been a prominent part of **Manchester City’s** development squads and has even managed to impress **Guardiola** enough to warrant some first-team appearances despite his young age.

In his first season at the club, **Garcia** already captained the U18s while also impressing during his stints with the U19s in the *Youth League* as well. In total, he could muster 25 appearances for the former, even bagging five goals in the process, and nine games for the latter team.

He would also feature for **Man City’s** U23 squad, tallying 16 appearances with one goal and one assist under his name along the way. But the first-team squad wasn’t that far away either.

**Garcia** made his first senior start for the *Citizens* in the *Carabao Cup* penalty shoot-out win over **Leicester** in December 2018 and also accompanied the first-team squad in their US summer tour when they faced **Borussia Dortmund** and **Liverpool** on American soil.

Since then, he can boast with a total of 14 senior appearances and even one assist under his belt in the process as well. His *Premier League* bow arrived in 2019/20 during **City’s** 8-0 thrashing of **Watford** in September 2019.

Even though his game time is still limited, **Garcia** seems like a safe bet for the future of the *Citizens*.

## **Transfer latest**

With **Man City’s** issues in the backline and **Garcia’s** sheer talent and potential, it’s pretty safe to say that he’s not going anywhere any time soon. No [**Manchester City news**](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/manchester-city-news/) or *transfer rumours* are suggesting otherwise and the 19-year-old defender is slowly but surely becoming a regular with the seniors.

It is, for that reason, to be expected that he continues developing at the *Etihad* and not anywhere else in the near future. Of course, with the summer transfer window edging ever closer, it is possible that we see *transfer rumours* of all kind surrounding the youngster but at the very moment, his future at **City** seems quite safe.

Either way, next season could be huge for the Spaniard and his time is yet to fully arrive. We’ll have to wait and see what **Pep** decides to do with his gem.

## **Player profile**

Since we are talking about a product of **Barcelona’s** *La Masia*, it doesn’t come as a surprise that **Garcia** is a technically superb defender who is comfortable on the ball and very capable of advancing the play and building up from the back.

And with **Man City** preferring that style of play themselves, the two teams are indeed almost a perfect match. The 19-year-old defender is confident in his approach, secure in possession and already exhibits some early leadership skills.

But ever since he arrived in England, **Garcia** has also worked on his physicality, which means that he is strong in the tackle and can tussle with the attackers and shrug them off the ball when necessary.

As things currently stand, the youngster has all the makings of a brilliant modern defender of the future.