THE BULGARIAN FORMER CULÉ CRITICIZED XAVI
Stoichkov's 'dart' to Xavi for the handling of Lamine Yamal
Published New:21/11/2023 - 00:59h
Updated New:21/11/2023 - 12:12h
Hristo Stoichkov, former FC Barcelona forward, spoke with 'Tuttosport' about Lamine Yamal's present. For the Bulgarian legend, the Barça youth needs a more experienced coach than Xavi Hernández to be able to grow
The irruption of Lamine Yamal in the first team has been, definitely, the best news for the FC Barcelona in a beginning of season very complex. The juvenile of 16 years has given the jump to the stardom of the hand of Xavi Hernández, but the form in which the egarense has managed the minutes of the extreme in the last weeks has generated diverse opinions in the Barcelona surroundings.
One of the critics to the míster of Terrassa is Hristo Stoichkov, ex leading culé the one who considers that, to finish to explode, Lamine requires a more experienced technician. "It needs a trainer type Johan Cruyff to help him to mature", sentenced the legend of the Bulgarian football in an interview with the half Italian 'Tuttosport'. Besides, Stoichkov elogió the personality and quality of the of Esplugues of Llobregat, characteristics that still have an enormous margin of improvement.
Stoichkov Signals the 'weaknesses' of Lamine Yamal
In this sense, the ex leading culé ensures that, although Yamal "sometimes is irrepressible in his dribbling", tácticamente has to improve a lot because "if they bend him, goes back testarudo with the balloon". The juvenile sum a so much and 3 assistances in 13 parties of League this season, whereas in Champions has not attained 'wet' in his first 4 apparitions. The striking is that the extreme was to title in 4 of the first 5 days of League, hardly has completed the 90 minutes in an opportunity in the tournament (in front of the Alavés).
In this regard, Stoichkov left another 'dart' to Xavi ensuring that "the problem is that today it does not exist Cruyff" in the Barça, although it also left clear that, in his criterion, any trainer 'top' in the actuality equalises to the legend of the Dutch football, mentioning in this context to Jurgen Klopp, Carlo Ancelotti and, even, Pep Guardiola. Hristo Was figure in the 'Dream Team' of Cruyff that won the first Champions of the Barça in 1992. From here that it compare to any trainer with the mythical Johan.
