Xavi turns 42 with his Barça in full reconstruction

After the dismissal of Ronald Koeman, the FC Barcelona brought to Xavi Hernández, one of the emblems of the club, so that it took part in a team that was in the worst moment of his history, so much sportive as economically. The new directive has kept day and night working to be able to organise the disaster that left the period of Josep Maria Bartomeu, and the egarense forms part of a new project that looks for to recover the glory of the previous years.

This Tuesday is the birthday number 42 of one of the best midfield players that has stepped the lawn the Camp Nou, and in the one who million fans blaugrana have his faith deposited for this new stage of reconstruction. However, his days like trainer in the City Condal have not been easy, since it has suffered big altibajos that have complicated his management with the first team. The first of them, and the most important, have been the drops, so much by injuries as by COVID or extraneous problems to the fields of game.

Xavi has not explained in any moment with all the plantel healthy, what has forced it to have to do adjust constant in the eleven initial. Nevertheless, this has allowed him achieve several 'perlas' inside the filial, that have revalorizado to the club and have given him another image of face to the future. One of them has been Gavi. The mediocentro of 17 years already has a value, as 'Transfermarkt', that surrounds the 40 million euros. Also Nico González, of 20 years, has added minutes and recently finish his index card with the Barça B to be taken in has the first team. Of equal way, other players as 'Ez' Abde and Ferran Jutglà have joined to the dynamics of the plantel title, being the Moroccan one of the most important options of the technician.

In spite of this, the balance under his control has not been spectacular, leaving a balance of 6 victories, 4 ties and 4 defeats in all the competitions, where the culés have annotated in 19 occasions and has fit 18 goals, a very low deficit regarding the offensive and defensive capacity of years backwards. It is important to take in account that the club finds in a stage of transition, and that the aims regarding other seasons have changed, being the main to win the Europe League and go in in the following Champions (are in the fifth position of the local championship, to a point of places of classification).

The best and the worst

Regarding his best and worse parties, stand out the victory (1-3) to domicile in front of the Villarreal by League and the defeat (3-0) in front of the Bayern of Munich by League of Champions, result that forced to the culés has to return to the UEL after more than twenty years. The relation of Xavi with his players has been firm, and has looked for the form that they fit in his new diagram of game. Now, the míster recognises cuales are the needs the team, by what has showed insistent in incorporating new reinforcements in the market of signings. The next 6 days will be of great importance for the development of the second half of season and the directive of Joan Laporta already is speeding up all the formalities to be able to fulfil the wishes of the born in Terrassa.