AT BARÇA YOU HAVE TO BE VERY AMBITIOUS
"It's not worth it with the 9": Xavi's reflection on the demand at Barça
The coach of FC Barcelona, Xavi Hernández, has left a 'hard' reflection on what it is like to be in the Barça team, where having innate talent alone is not worth it to succeed (or try)
Do with a place in the FC Barcelona is not something simple and, much less, triumph with the Barcelona T-shirt. They have been a lot of the players, fichados and formed in The Masia, that have paraded by the Spotify Camp Nou without leaving footprint. It supposes a challenge, very big, defend the shield of the Catalan club because the requirement is maximum. It does not cost only have talent.
Xavi Hernández, the one who has gone through all the stages of the Barça and knows to the club like the palm of his hand by all the time that has been on the lawn and, now, in the bench, has resumido what is to form part of the family blaugrana in the second episode of 'OR7GENE', the documentary of David Villa in 'DAZN'. It has highlighted the importance to have an ambitious mentality to remain in the first team.
The reflection more 'hard' of Xavi on the Barça
The pressure in the group culé is constant and the egarense has insisted in that it is necessary to be very constant and have a strong mentality to assume the challenge to play and triumph in the Barça... Because it does not go only to win, but of -as it has repeated in an infinity of occasions- win and convince. It thinks that it is necessary to have a balance between talent, proof and ambition.
It has said, in concrete, that "the 30 percent is innate, afterwards is the mentality, the effort, the sacrifice... It is the say 'I want to be player of the Barça'. I have seen footballers of an extraordinary level, but have not had the mentality neither the proof neither the perseverance neither the attitude... And this is more than the 70 percent. It would say that it is the 80 the mentality to say: 'I want to triumph in this club'".
It brought to collation the example of one of his big friends and excompalñeros, Carles Puyol, the one who 'was born' in The Masia and signed a historical career defending the T-shirt blaugrana: "Have the example of Puyol, were in the Barça b and saw the 20 that there was and said 'this can not play in the first team of the Barça. And it played, and captain. And 15 years in the Barça marking differences. And being an example. Why? By mentality". In summary, explained that "the Barça is something more. The requirement of can Barça is not only win, have to win and convince. It does not cost the 9, have to aim to the 10 and the requirement is tremenda".
The idea of game, Mesi, Cruyff...
The trainer of Terrassa has insisted in that it triumphed like Barcelona player like that of game of the team, that implanted Johan Cruyff: "Leo eats aside, with the idea to play closed backwards or to the right or to the left... That eats to part. But Andrés and I, and I especially I, am not by my innate qualities neither individual but by the idea of game, by the philosophy of game. I, to individual level, was very little thing playing to the football, if something was was by the idea. If it does not come Cruyff to implant an idea, I the same had not played. If we had played to the direct football or to the second balloon, as fix you...".
