Xavi in a training of the FC Barcelona / Image: Twitter FCB Official

IS THERE ALREADY 'XAVI EFFECT'?

Xavi raises the intensity in training: The rondo that 'drives Barça crazy'

Published:11/11/2021 - 16:38h

Updated:11/11/2021 - 16:38h

Xavi Hernández wanted to leave a very clear message to his players in his first week of training at the Ciutat Esportiva... They must 'give back' the importance of the ball!

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The new trainer of the FC Barcelona, Xavi Hernández, will not be in the alone bench because it is a legend and emblem of the club. All the contrary. That 'factor' forces it to that, under his control, go up the intensity and requirement. The responsibility that has is maximum and wants to that the changes produce quickly, although it is very conscious that it has received a staff 'broken' and that has sunk after the last results and performances. It is a challenge and is loved to assume it.

From the day one, Xavi has left clear that the requirement went to be total and of there that it have implemented a series of norms so that they finish the 'relaxations' for the players of the Barça. As it mentioned it in his presentation, to him go him to demand and, therefore, has to demand him to his footballers. In the trainings has noticed , although sum very few, that has the intention to change him the face to the team, although for the moment it has very few headlines because of the stop FIFA.

Nevertheless, in spite of this, has not given grantings: All go to train and work by the same to be able to 'save' the season, something that for the moment is complicated, but no impossible. In this sense, Xavi has showed determined to cater to the protagonist of the game, the balloon, of the importance and importance that requires in the Barça, a factor that has 'lost' with the happen of the years. In a video that has published the Barcelona club in his social platforms, the players were doing a rondo 3x3+3 in which the trainer asks the touch to first and demands intensity to the footballers, even in the trainings.

The one of Terrassa wants to recover the good feelings of the team and is conscious that his team has to handle the balloon and feel comfortable with him. It is one of the 'mandamientos' of Xavi and it will be necessary to see if it achieves the change of immediate way or goes to be a process that carry time to be able to achieve it. Of any way, has gone up the intensity in the trainings in first instance and 'will improve' when they return the international the next week.

Command with balloon, the aim of Xavi

The main aim of Xavi like trainer of the FC Barcelona, such as it achieved it in the To the-Sadd, is that the team have an identity. The one of Terrassa characterises for betting a style of game very offensive, keeping alive the 'cruyffismo'. It has left it clear one and again: "The most important, the most beautiful, the loveliest of the football is to have the balloon, go to the attack and dominate the party with the balloon", said in an opportunity in 'The Coaches Voice'.

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