The FC Barcelona has done official this Thursday that Xavi Hernández will be still in the bench culé and finally will not leave the club once finish this season. The continuity of the technician, as well it explained Joan Laporta, does not involve drastic changes in his technical body, but yes that the entity fichará to two names to complement the staff.
The elected, as they have aimed several informations of the Spanish press, are Julio Tous and Raúl Martínez, both preparadores and with experience in the elite of the European and international football. The two signings of the group culé would arrive with the aim to improve the physical condition of the staff, a problematic with weight along this campaign, and also of the last two or three.
In the case of Tous, treats of the preparador physical of confidence of Antonio Conte, having besides experience in the Barça after forming part of the technical body of Frank Rijkaard the 2004. Tous Arrived to the club by recommendation of Paco Seirul·the, attendant of the area of methodology of the Barcelona club until the 2022. After his brief stage with Rijkaard, that finish the same 2004, the preparador physical had several experiences by Europe.
Two names that already know what is to work in the Barça
His big success would arrive finally with Conte, one of the Italian trainers with more success inside the European football during the last decade. It worked with the exfutbolista from the 2011 until the 2020 in the Juventus, the Italian selection, Chelsea and the Inter of Milan, always like manager of strength. By his part, Raúl Martínez neither is an extraneous figure to the Barça, since it has been indirectly linked to the Barcelona club this last season.
This situation has been thanks to Carles Puyol, of who is fellow. Martínez was fisioterapeuta main of the Spanish selection that won two Eurocopas and the World-wide of the 2010, a fact that approached it to the Barça to work beside legends culés like Busquets, Andrés Iniesta or Gerard Hammered. Also it has supervised recently the work of the players lesionados of long length of the Barça this season, Gavi and Alejandro Balde, by what expects an immediate adaptation.