Last update September 7, 2022 by colgadosporelfutbol
Talking about Xavi Hernández is talking about possibly one of the best midfielders in the history of football, His partnership with Andrés Iniesta contributed to the already great team that was Barcelona. additional benefits which resulted in countless titles and one of the best teams that have ever been seen on the field of play and both were largely responsible for Spain becoming world and European champions..
Xavi Nation in Tarrasa the 25 of January of 1980 And from a very young age his father instilled in him the love of football., He immersed himself in touch-the-ball football with players with great technique that Johan Cruyff's so-called “Dream Team” imposed and he was a midfielder with refined technique who protected the ball like no one else and read with admirable simplicity the rhythm that the match must acquire in each phase of the game.
The Blaugrana club coaches followed him during many children's matches in the city of Egarense at the request of his father., until he was eleven years old when he tried out with Barcelona, arriving at La Masía in 1991. With Cruyff's football in mind and improved by Guardiola, who won the famous "sextet" of which he was one of its greatest exponents, he quickly began to show his qualities from an early age., Even Pep himself predicted that he was the player who was going to retire everyone on the team. And he wasn't much wrong as he became the natural successor to the current Manchester City manager..
Your willingness to learn things, The maturity that he radiated at such a young age and his football quality led to the fact that in the season 1997-1998 will move from youth to Barca B, in which he immediately became the “brain” of the team.
A team in which Xavi not only commanded and organized, but he scored goals with ease thanks to his unexpected arrivals into the area and his mastery in taking free kicks with a barrier. Already then, despite his short stature (1,70 m) and his small complexion (pesa 63 kilos when in top shape), He would be a master in driving the ball and protecting it.
In the following season he alternated his performances with the B and with the first team, with which he debuted 18 August 1998 led by Dutch coach Louis Van Gaal, in a Spanish Super Cup match against Real Mallorca. He was a starter and, also, scored a goal. Van Gaal made him debut in the League on 3 October of that same year at the Mestalla against Valencia, who was defeated by 1-3. His intermittent performances with the first team gave wings to a downtrodden Barça that occupied tenth position in the table.. Xavi scored a decisive goal that gave his team the victory in the Valladolid field, and from that victory, counting more assiduously on their presence, The blaugranas came back in such a spectacular way that they would win the League 1998-1999. It was his second professional title, because shortly before he had won the U-20 World Championship held in Nigeria.
It was in the following season when the Egarense consolidated himself in the first team in addition to also making his debut with the Spanish team.. After Guardiola's departure, the team went through a slump of results in which he was always a starter despite the team's not ideal situation.. It was not until the year 2005 when he won his third league title. A cruciate tear late that year was the only blemish on his injury history..
But it was entering the following year when Barcelona became a fearsome team, winning the Champions League. 2006 and beginning to give signs of what would come later culminating in 2009 when his team won all the titles it played for.
At the international level with the national team he was the absolute owner of the midfield in the titles achieved between 2008 Y 2012, that is, two European Championships and a World Cup.
In total he achieved 25 titles as a player and after a brief experience as coach of Al-Sadd he finally arrived at Barcelona to direct it under the guidance of Joan Laporta, who replaced Bartomeu as president., with a team that was affected sportingly and morally, he could do little except win by 0-4 at the Bernabéu, although he could not prevent the white alirón, he managed to take the team to second position. This year could be the year of his consolidation as an elite coach.
