Sergio Busquets Burgos is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Barcelona and the Spain national team. Busquets is widely regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders of all time due to his composure on the ball, vision, defensive awareness, passing ability, and dribbling. He is considered to be a deep lying playmaker capable of directing the game play through short and calm passes.
A one-club man, he arrived in Barcelona's first team in July 2008, and made over 600 total appearances. He was part of their squads that won a treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League in 2008–09 and 2014–15.
Busquets made his senior international debut for Spain in April 2009. He helped the country win the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 tournaments, and also featured at two other World Cups and Euro 2016.