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Kika Stein on the locker room in Barcelona: "40 years in football I have never seen anything like it" - Walla! sport

2021-08-12T04:47:09.129Z


The former Barcelona coach claims that the experience in Barcelona made him want to return to football, talks about the crumbling team, and conveyed an implicit criticism of Messi


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Kika Stein on the locker room in Barcelona: "40 years in football I have never seen anything like it"

The former Barcelona coach claims that the experience at the club made him want to return to football, tells of the crumbling team, implicitly criticized Messi and said: "We lost the championship because Real Madrid got six penalties."

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Kika Stein, the former Barcelona coach (between January and August 2020), says that after his time at Barça he lost all motivation to return to the coach, and does not forget the bad situation he was in the team.

"I lost all interest in coaching," he says of his past experience, "what I found in Barcelona I have not seen in 40 years in football."



Stein suffered with Barça the 8: 2 defeat against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

He claims: "We knew the team was not in good shape, Barcelona suffered for many years, everyone saw it. I came to Barcelona because they had no one else, and it was the only opportunity in my life to coach it."

He said, "The football I've seen in recent years is not the football I fell in love with."

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An unforgettable depression.

Kika (Photo: GettyImages)

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Messi after the eight (Photo: AP)

Stein said of Barça during his time that "in my life I have never seen a dressing room like this, neither in the national team nor in Atletico. It was something else. It shocked me. There are many things you can not control. You find yourself in a dressing room that is not happy. And what. I saw there, I tell you - I have not seen in my 40 years in football. " Kika also recalled why his team lost the championship to Real Madrid: "We lost to Real 2: 0 at the Bernabeu, but we could have scored three goals ... Vinicius scored a goal and I do not know how, it hit Pika and passed the goalkeeper ... and we lost the league "Real Madrid received six penalties, and we had a difficult time." On the eight from Bayern he said: "The situation before Bayern was bad. A lot of dissatisfaction from the management. In the end it led to a crash. After the fourth goal everyone collapsed. It was an accumulation of years. This club needs renovation."



Stein also implicitly criticized Leo Messi, not mentioning his name, but said in an interview: "Many times I asked myself, 'Is it worth having number 10, which can end the game in ingenious action, and in the rest of the game rest and disappear? Do you prefer a player? "One who does not run and does not defend, and get a goal because the player did not go down? It can create problems for you."

However, when asked explicitly about Messi, Kika said: "I have said many times, for me he is the greatest player in history, or at least from what I have seen."



Stein added that Barcelona have not yet paid him the money they owe him: "A year has passed and I have not received the money. Avidal was with me and asked me to give up the money because the club is in trouble. An offer of compensation, but I did not hear from him. "

When asked what he felt when he saw Messi leave, he replied with a smile: "Maybe now they will have money to pay me."

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