Xavi remains to train Al-Sadd, renews until 2021

Al-Sadd announced that Xavi "has agreed to extend the contract and will therefore remain at the helm of the first team until the end of the 2020-21 season".
    The former Barcelona midfielder who won everything with both the Blaugrana club and the Spanish national team (one World Cup in 2010 and two Europeans) had arrived in Qatar in 2015 as a footballer, then remained in Al Sadd as a coach. and, in his first year as a coach, he won the Qatar National Cup and the Super Cup. According to sources close to the 40-year-old Spaniard, in his contract there would be a clause that would allow him to free himself in the event of a call from Barcelona. The Catalans had already thought of him in January, when they had decided to exonerate Ernesto Valverde, but Xavi had refused explaining that he preferred "a project in which we start from scratch and in which I want to make the decisions".