Xavi Hernández was not the typical jewel of the Masia that exploded prompt and began to stand out from very young. The career of the of Terrassa wrote slowly and with good letter, since it took in finding his best level much more of the expected. This yes, when it achieved it, in little time turned into one of the best midfield players of the world and, now that it has withdrawn , in one of the best of the history.
The career of the Catalan in the elite of the football is spare known by all the world, but does not know so much of how was his stage in the quarry barcelonista. A report that collects the book 'The Masia: forming people further of the sport', of the journalist Cristian Martín, and that publishes the newspaper MARKS, gives some extra detail very curious on the ex mediocentro.
In this detailed and curious report can appreciate all the fortresses and weaknesses that saw him to Xavi the technicians of the Barça when it played in the Childish culé. In him they see the deficits that had the ex footballer, how was his physicist, his coordination, his flexibility or his skill in the pass and with the ball. In summary, is a tremendously interesting document with which know another stage and another facet of the legendary footballer.
For example, the trainers of the Masia said of him that was very slow in career, that cost him start or that it was little flexible. As all the world knows, along his professional career the power and the acceleration never was the his. This fault of physicist always the suplió with his individual quality and his wonderful controls of balloon. Already then, as it can see in the report, did this same in the Childish.
His greater virtues when it was a boy
"His controls are excellent. Suple This lack of rapidity in his movements with some excellent controls of balloon", said the document. The technicians also saw then that it was a teacher of the pass, as it showed always in the field. "His passes are very good. It would have to improve in left leg to be able to use better this quality. Big personality in the field", prayed the text.
Also they stood out his level in the driving and his skill to the hour to save the ball, something that did him big like professional. "Driving very good. Good sense of protection of the balloon. Hardly ever it loses it", they commented. But what more impressed to the technicians when it was Childish was his intelligence to the hour to plant in the field, for them that was his greater virtue. "His positioning in the field is excellent. It is definitely his best quality. Always it is where has to be and always is a support and a valid exit for his mates", commented. This last was also what did him be one of the best means of always.