Xavi Hernández: "Leo Messi suffers with Argentina because there is too much tension"

Although it has preferred not raising the voice, Xavi Hernández has followed to the detail what occurred in the World-wide of Russia, and when it approaches the denouement of the tournament, has made some assessments. In addition to thinking on the Spanish selection, the Catalan has spoken of some of his ex mates, and has not doubted in commenting his point of view on other combined national.

In his interview for the newspaper 'ACE', clear is, one of the questions forced was the complicated path of Leo Messi, affected to physical and mental level and with a quite limited performance during his career with Argentina. Many considers that the '10' has not been to the height, but the egarense finds him a justification by the excess of pressure that there is on his shoulders.

"It has tried it, they have not played badly to the football. The only is that play with a tension added is complicated. I have lived it with Spain, play with the people that did not want the balloon, with an unnecessary tension", has compared, insisting in that the factor anímico has finished to a 'albiceleste' too irregular in the last times.

"You can not go out to the field and be suffering. It notices them that there is a country with urgency, do not win a World-wide from the 86. It is necessary to have a lot of personality to want the balloon, to go out of this situation of urgency", has added, recovering a subject, unfortunately, too usual: "I do not see him so happy in Argentina as in the Barcelona".

"No always they fulfil all the aims in the life. Luckily many of this generation have had the luck to win it all, but is not the normal, the normal is that it was missing you something for winning", has explained, removing importance to that the World-wide was the spine nailed for a footballer that has left his footprint in the history of the football.

Xavi reiterates his praises to Neymar

In addition to referring to Messi, Xavi also has had words for Neymar, of less to more in Russia but also marked by his controversies on the terrain of game. The midfield player has commented that his character was not a question that touched in Barcelona, and that clearly, "is the clear successor of Messi and Cristiano, the number one".

"It is his game, his form to be and is difficult to change. I understand that there is controversial, that the people can understand that it throws more than the normal, but what can not say is that it do not try it or that do not have personality, that do not have one against one, that do not want to throw the team to the back… I prefer a player so one that hides me , that does not want it", has reflexionado, signalling that, with his good and bad appearances, the Brazilian is a star of world-wide size.