Handshake between Guardiola and Mourinho before a City-United

THE WAR BARÇA-MADRID OF ANTAÑO

Xavi desvela why Guardiola went in to the cloth with Mourinho

Published New:17/10/2018 - 21:28h

Updated New:18/10/2018 - 16:54h

The mythical ex captain of the FC Barcelona, Xavi Hernández, has participated in the documentary 'Take The Ball, Pass The Ball', where desgrana the secrets of the period of greater rivalry between Barça and Madrid, with Guardiola and Mourinho in the bench

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Many will remember it like lto period more thrilling that has lived never between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, with some Classical vibrant, abundant and full of controversy before, during and after the balloon filmed by the lawn. With Guardiola and Mourinho in the benches, Barcelona and Real Madrid centred the looks of all the fans of the planet.

Xavi Hernández formed part of this in first person, when being one of the captains of the Barcelona in that period, and recently has participated in the documentary 'Take the ball, pass the ball', in the which has desgranado some of the secrets of the existent rivalry between Barça and Madrid.

Mourinho landed in the Real Madrid with the only aim to try destroy to the FC Barcelona, to the team that under the control of Pep Guardiola ridiculed to all the other big clubs of Europe and minimised them to base of football, 'tiki-taka' and Leo Messi in plenitud superlativa.

Never it attained 'Mou' desarticular the Barcelona machine, a gear done to enjoy and win titles, but yes left controversial episodes that enervated to the fans culé, and of course also to the trainer and big idol of masses in the FC Barcelona, Pep Guardiola. 

"Mourinho was tightening so much and so much... That even the surroundings barcelonista already asked something more to Guardiola", explains Xavi Hernández. Everything exploded the day in that Guardiola went in to the cloth and conceded the famous previous press conference to the semifinals of Champions League 2010-11 against the Real Madrid, in which it defined to the Portuguese as 'the puto master' in the rooms of press.

"Tomorrow to the 20.45 hours will go out to this field to try play to football the best possible. In this room, he is the puto master and the one who more knows of the world. I do not want to neither compete neither an instant. Only I remember him that we have been together four years. He knows me and I know it. I remain me with this. If afterwards he wants to remain with the complaints of the final of the Glass of Rey and the friends of the press written or of the president Florentino Pérez, can do it perfectly", went the most sounded words of Guardiola in the Barça.

And it is that the stage did not go at all easy for any of his protagonists, not even for a Guardiola that, in spite of turning into the best technician of the history of the FC Barcelona, left passed four campaigns when feeling "burned" by the press and by what represented to train to a Barça to the that all the world tried destronar, mainly the Real Madrid and his affine means.

Guardiola And Mourinho, reunion in England

Now, andl destination has gone back to joint to Guardiola and Mourinho in the Premier League, in concrete in the city of Manchester, but again there is not colour. The one of Santpedor heads to one of the best teams of the world, the Manchester City, that has a style of alike game to the 'tiki-taka' that lucía the Barça. The Manchester United no approaches him neither to the sole... And it does not have paint that it go to do it in quite a lot of time.