Just because the tape stopped didn’t mean that he had to. When World Soccer interviewed him in early 2011, he was soon talking about Portsmouth and Real Oviedo. “When he is not playing football, he is watching football.”
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Xavi’s former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola said, as the end drew near: “Xavi is the most amateur player I know, and at the same time the most professional player too, such is his love for football. As Alves put it: “Xavi plays in the future.” It was not always that Xavi played passes to fit the run, it was that he played passes that obliged the run, however much he claimed that his team-mates’ movement made the game easy for him. Others can move their team but I have only ever seen one player, and that’s him, who can move all 22 players on the pitch as he wishes, to his rhythm.”Īn apparently throwaway line from Dani Alves also encapsulated his significance. Meanwhile, as former Athletic Bilbao player Joseba Exteberria told journalist Rodrigo Errasti: “If we analyse football as a collective sport Xavi is the most influential player I have ever seen. “There are lots of players who win things, but few who lay down concepts, ideas, who change the way we think – and Xavi did that.”Īndoni Zubizarreta, the former Barcelona goalkeeper and sporting director, described him as defining a new role, saying: “In the future, we will see players and say ‘he plays like Xavi’. He killed off the myth of physicality above all else. According to Lopetegui: “Xavi helped us build, or see, a new player profile that ended up running through all levels of the national team. In the words of Porto coach Julen Lopetegui, who ran Spain’s under-19s and under-21s along what could be called “Xavian” lines, he “changed football”. He may well be the most important Spanish player of all time, the man who helped change their history. Xavi was the ideologue for club and country, bringing an identity to the most successful national team and most successful club side there has been here, imposing a style and a way of playing that made them instantly recognisable. It is not just about the trophies it is about what he represents. In fact, Xavi himself talks about victory and defeat as “impostors”, about there being something deeper than success. A World Youth champion in 1999, he has also won two European Championships and the World Cup.īut it is not just what he won, it is also how he won. Twenty-five club medals make him the most successful player in Spanish history.
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There have been eight league titles too, the first of them in 1999, plus three Spanish Cup trophies, six Spanish Super Cups, two European Super Cups and two Club World Cups. Taken before this year’s Champions League Final against Juventus, it wasn’t even complete yet.īarcelona’s 3-1 victory in Berlin was his fourth European Cup that’s four of the five that the club have won. In the picture of Xavi with all the trophies he has won, there are so many there’s something almost comic about the snap. “Stick them there with the rest of them.” You could almost imagine the removal men turning up at his new home, lugging furniture around, one of them pausing and holding up a European Cup in one hand, the Spanish Cup in the other. No one has played more times for the Catalan club no outfield player has played more times for Spain. His European career was over after exactly 900 senior games: 133 for Spain and 767 for Barcelona. And he couldn’t have wished for better company on his final walk, stepping out at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin and down the concrete slope underneath the main stand towards the team bus.Īlongside him was Sergio Busquets and together they carried the European Cup one handle each, the trophy swinging between them.Ī few days later, Xavi headed off to Qatar and semi-retirement, aged 35. This may seem like a lot of money to spend but what an investment! as all these players will be worth upwards of 20m after 2 years, and your never lose a game again!Īnd if things get tight you can always sell them on for a nice little profit as you wont be sort of takers.It was one o’clock in the morning when Xavi Hernandez left the dressing room as a Barcelona player for the last time. if you leave these players untill the second season every other top club wants them and you will have to pay much much for them. also by doing it this way it gives them time to get a years playing expirence and better ratings, BUT THERE ALL YOURS!! and for a good price, as there value goes up from the start of the game. this way you get time to build up your finances so you can have them all. Sign these young hot shot players as soon as poss, but on the tranfer screen go to transfer and change it to end of season. The following players have a potential 180+ rating.
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