Ronald Araujo renews with FC Barcelona until 2031

FC Barcelona announced this Thursday the renewal until 2031 of the Uruguayan central defender Ronald Araujo, who has become the leader of the Barça defense in recent years, after signing his new contract to extend a relationship that began in 2018.

“FC Barcelona and the player Ronald Araujo have reached an agreement to renew his contract, which will bind him with the club until June 30, 2031,” says the official statement.

Barça’s announcement was a matter of time after the rumors of recent days and their presence today in the offices to sign a six-year renewal. Araujo committed to the Barça club despite leaving certain doubts about his renewal a few weeks ago and fueling the buzz.

The central defender, who has recently returned to the team injured since the summer, signed his new contract this Thursday afternoon in an event with the president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta; the first vice president, Rafa Yuste; and the Club’s sports director, Anderson Luis de Souza Deco’.

Araujo, 25 years old, is a player of the present and future at Barça, the club being more relieved in that position by the emergence of Pau Cubarsí. The Uruguayan has become one of the leaders of the culé team in a period that is also complicated in sporting and economic terms. The defender arrived in Barcelona in August 2018 from Boston River in Montevideo to play for Barça B.

He made his official debut with the first team on October 6, 2019, against Sevilla at the Spotify Camp Nou, while he became a full part of the Barça team in the 2020/21 season, a year in which he also won his first title. the King’s Cup.

In total, Araujo has played 154 games for Barça so far, in which he has scored 8 goals and provided 6 assists. Add two Spanish Super Cups, a Cup and a League. The Uruguayan is also, since this summer, the second captain of the first team.