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'INJECTION' OF ILLUSION TO THE BARÇA

Xavi and Alves already add: Barcelonismo recovers the illusion (and it is not little)

Published:19/11/2021 - 00:06h

Updated:19/11/2021 - 00:06h

In the midst of the chaos that Barça is experiencing, on all its fronts, Xavi Hernández and Dani Alves have emerged as leaders in the search to restore the Barça's illusion

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The uncertainty in the FC Barcelona is maximum because this Saturday, to the 21:00 hours (in Spain) and in front of the Espanyol, begins a new stage led by Xavi Hernández in the benches. The egarense will begin, of official way, his stage like Barcelona trainer and does it in the most delicate moment of the team to sportive level. A proof of them are the last results in LaLiga, competition in which the Barça accumulates four consecutive parties without winning. To put it in perspective, the culés won for the last time the past 17 October, in front of Valencia (3-1). It does a month.

The challenge is capital for Xavi, but if there is something that has showed in his first two weeks directing to the team, is that it is ilusionado for achieving 'rescue' to a Barça that left to the stop FIFA with eleven points by behind the leader of LaLiga and that will have a 'final' in the Champions League the next week to attain classify to the eighth of final of the competition. The one of Terrasa, however, has a factor 'extra' that did not have Ronald Koeman in his moment: the confidence, from the offices until the terracings of the Camp Nou. It has converted , still without debuting, in the illusion of a barcelonismo that accumulates sticks after sticks and that it wants to go back to do a 'big' in Spain and Europe.

This confidence that has the trainer has become quickly illusion, because the fans (and also the changing room), are safe that Xavi is the only that it can carry to the Barça again to the senda of the victory. Eric García recognised it and is the message that transmits from all the sectors of the barcelonismo: the feeling that all can change and will struggle until achieving it, something that carries time without 'exist' for a team that has been sunk and that has lived of the ashes in the last times. The way, it is necessary to be honest, aims to be long and will have altibajos, probably, but is the intention to do something distinct and give him back his stray spirit to the Barça.

And it is that it is this, surely, what has caused that Xavi Hernández was in the bench culé, further of the a lot of successes that has achieved in his short stage like trainer of the To the-Sadd. The one of Terrassa is a man that knows the house, from beginning to end, that has very defined the 'DNA Barça' and that does not go to surrender at first. That is a key point, because has (and will have) that 'battle' with a changing room that is not simple, in no case. For this, has brought to a partner that can help it in his work and that it can turn into a 'boost' inside and, especially, out of the field.

It treats of a Dani Alves that has returned five years afterwards to the Barça. It does it in the full stop of his professional career and with more doubts that certainties regarding his performance (carries months without competing, after the rescission of his agreement with the São Paulo), but that will have the immense challenge to serve of link between the trainer and the changing room. Xavi is conscious that the task is complicated and that they will be many the problems that will find on the way, by what has wanted to carry to the changing room to a born leader, as it is it the Brazilian, to raise the spirit and 'inject' competitiveness to the players.

It has commented a lot that Alves returns to the Barça to help to the more youngsters, something that is súmamente necessary, but also serves of alarm for the veterans: Sergio Busquets, Gerard Hammered, Jordi Alba... Players that would have to serve of leaders of the staff and that leave the assessment that they are not it being, in no case. They also have to 'wake up' and be fundamental pieces for the reconstruction of the team, especially inside the changing room culé.

The fans assumes and accepts the challenge

Xavi Hernández mentioned in his presentation like culé the importance that had the support of the Barcelona fans in this moment of the team. His first message to the fans was, in fact, that "need you to all. Have to forget us of the ismos. And especially, Visca the Barça" and the answer has been positive, because the confidence is absolute in Xavi. The history 'repeated' with the arrival of Dani Alves, with an unexpected reaction, of some way, because of the age of the right side Brazilian.

In any case, the fans understands and assumes the challenge that will cross the Barça in the next months and years. It will not be a simple route and the economic reality also plays against of the Barcelona, because they are very few the options that has the club to go out to the market and 'fill' the gaps that at present there is in the staff, that are not few. The confidence is key of face to the future to average term... And Xavi already has it.

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