Pep Guardiola, beside Xavi Hernández

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The greater challenge to surpass for Xavi like trainer

Published:6/11/2021 - 07:44h

Updated:6/11/2021 - 08:22h

Xavi will confront a lot of challenges now that occupies the chair of trainer of the Barcelona. The elder of all, is to show that like trainer can equalise to Guardiola

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Xavi Hernández finally already is trainer of the Barça and the club announced it officially. To the club and with which won in 17 seasons in the Camp Nou 25 titles, so much in Spain as in Europe and the world. Also it is the second footballer of the Catalan club with more meetings contested (767), and alone Messi surpasses it in this section (778). Besides, long for to be a trainer of the calibrate of Pep Guardiola.

It was a player with a lot of talent that stood out in the inferior categories of the club. Xavi, the one who in that period played in the Barça B shined in the double victory of the club against the Real Madrid B: 5-0 in the Miniestadi and 0-2 in the Bernabéu.

Debut against the Mallorca

Two months afterwards, on 18 August, Xavi debuted with the first team in a party of the Supercopa of Spain. The rival was the Mallorca. Many compared it with Guardiola like footballer and this was a problem at the beginning, but Go Gaal attained to fine-tune it to the point in that it never lost the leather.

The Barça of Go Gaal had good and bad moments. To finals of December of this same year, the Dutch trainer was against the ropes. The Barça accumulated four defeats and the then president, Josep Lluís Núñez, had considered to expel it if it lost in Valladolid. The Barça had a lot of problems to surpass the defence of said rival Xavi decided the party and saved to Go Gaal.

Saving to Go Gaal

Xavi changed the history of Go Gaal in the Barça. Of return to Barcelona, the then midfield player suffered some pranks of his mates. They remembered him that it had rescued to the Dutch technician, a very demanding person and cartesiana. This day, the Pelopo knew what really was the Barça in the moments of maximum tension.

The goal of Xavi reactivated also to the Barça and attained to conquer LaLiga this same year. In the five back years the Barcelona team did not conquer any title and lived one of the worst moments of his history when Joan Gaspart was the president of the Catalan group. In this moment, Xavi was about to to go to the Juventus, but at the end decided to be still in the Camp Nou

Rijkaard And Aragonese

Fortunately, with Frank Rijkaard suffered deep changes that gave him form to Xavi that many saw in the following years. The technician asked him that it attacked more to the rivals and was decisive between lines. In the Spanish selection Luis Aragonese did the same and "The Red" finished winning two Eurocopas and the World-wide of 2010.

The Barça of Rijkaard won two Leagues and the Champions League of 2006, the second that conquered the Catalan square. Afterwards it arrived a deep fall, until Guardiola arrived to replace to the Dutch and carried to the Barça to live the most surprising period of all his history in which it conquered three Leagues, two Champions and a lot of titles more.

That team was unbeatable and relentless in all the senses, with the born footballer in Terrassa, Messi and Andrés Iniesta in command. The moment of the greater cusp of that Barcelona was the final of the Champions of 2011. This day, when the ones of Guardiola confronted and won to the Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson admitted that never it had confronted to a so strong rival.

Farewell with Luis Enrique

Although after Guardiola arrived Tito Vilanova and the Tata Martino, Xavisiguió like titling indisputable. It played a year more with Luis Enrique, but the Asturian was reducing his presence in the team. His withdrawal saw in the horizon. A legend like him deserved a farewell to the big when it finished said season. In that then the Barça won another triplete: LaLiga, the Glass of Rey and the UEFA Champions League.

Xavi went to the big of the Barça, but decided to prolong his stage like footballer in a country with fewer requirements. And it chose Qatar. With the To the-Sadd played between the 2015 and the 2019 and afterwards turned into trainer of the referred team.

Comparisons with Guardiola

In his time like trainer and player in Qatar, Xavi has accumulated a heritage of 20 million euros. The ex Barcelona would have signed an agreement with an inferior value to the that perceived in Doha, but the same has of variables in function of the triumphs and results that take out the team.

The comparisons with Guardiola will go back, is something that always has accompanied it even from his first years like footballer. Anybody doubt that surpass to the current technician of the City like player, now will see if it will attain it like technician, although it will not be easy. The current Barça has a lot of problems by what if it attains a revolution of the calibrate of the one of Guardiola is not something that do to the first

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