The message of Xavi Hernández to his 'heir' in the FC Barcelona

Riqui Puig is one of the youngsters of the Masia with a more promising future in the FC Barcelona. The Catalan midfield player of 18 years sees like the midfield player that has to be the successor of players so mythical like Xavi Hernández or Andrés Iniesta. Precisely the one of Terrassa spoke on the canterano in some statements to Sportive World.

"I am very happy because when I see it play perceives school Barça total, this that so much likes us. Somehow it gives us back to the memory this football that have lived years backwards in Can Barça. This so particular DNA of our game and that it is so complex to find in concrete players. And Riqui has it ", ensured Xavi.

Xavi showed extrañado of face to that Riqui did not go headline in the Barça B: "The first that surprises me is that the season happened was not headline in the Barça B in Second To. A player of this level and of this talent where would have to have played is in the filial, where hardly had minutes and appeared very sporadically".

The one of Terrassa reviewed the attributes of the that is called to be his 'heir': "Has talent, sees immediately the played, knows what has to do at all times, is intelligent and has the head very very furnished. It likes me a lot that it was a footballer that generate illusion to the culés and to all the people of the world of the football that wraps to the Barcelona. The truth is that it is a boy that breathes talent and that plays easy. Has desparpajo, personality, does not hide and asks the balloon. It has done one turns fantastic".

Riqui Puig depends on he same

Xavi wished that Valverde gave him opportunities, although it said that this also will depend of the own Riqui. "Ojalá Ernesto can go him giving opportunities when it deserve them to him. I think that already it is quite ready, would say that very ready, to play in the first team of the Barça", said, adding that "it will depend at the same time of his mentality, to want to be player of the Barça, because it is not easy, and to surrender in big stages, that also is complicated. We have seen that big footballers have incorporated to the first team of the Barça and have not surrendered by different reasons".

The ex Barcelona midfield player has clear that quiere see triumph to Riqui Puig in the first team: "Obviously I wish him the best of the world and besides am very happy to having been a referent for him. Ojalá Can triumph, a youngster of the house, of Matadepera, one of ours".