Precisely Xavi

Let's start with the obvious: after having won a League, what has always been required of any coach in Barça's modern history is an evident improvement in the team's play.

To all but one, but only because Guardiola's first Barça was already losing its shine, it was not a question of sublimating perfection every quarter of an hour.

All the others, including Xavi Hernández, have been given the benefit of the doubt and have had the opportunity to demonstrate that by playing well one gets closer to more and more titles without the need for rhetorical debates: in Barcelona the expression playing well” means what it means, there are other clubs with their approaches and justifications.

It is likely that They will only have a solution as long as it is that same team that makes the wheel turn.

He urges activating the famous virtuous circle and for that it is convenient to accept the role assumed by each one.

Xavi's, one of the most complicated, involved putting together a team in which the sum of the individualities was less than the collective return, that is to say: that each footballer seems better than he is thanks to a mechanism in which a good coach He always ends up looking like a magnificent watchmaker.

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Xavi, from dream to nightmare

However, the still Barça coach opted for another route.

A much darker and difficult one to defend by those who had placed all their hopes in him and were willing to double, even triple, the margin of confidence that the fans of this club usually grant to their coaches.

Xavi Hernández will have no complaints from a crowd that devoured disappointments to the rhythm of tango and never took out a handkerchief, nor whistled, nor sang songs to him that make your blood run cold: neither Xavi, leave now, nor did you leave me as a neighbor to the mother-in-law.

Xavi is within his rights to think that nothing would have helped.

Even feeling that his work was never and will never be valued because that is the position of Barça coach.

And he is, even though the latter is flatly false, even though he has talked about it, he says, with other illustrious tenants of that same bench.

Accumulating experiences, opinions, data and all kinds of advice is also a way of isolating yourself and building a parallel reality.

Xavi Hernández has lived in it all this time, perhaps from the same day he arrived and hugged Laporta as if the years had not passed for either of them.

He has locked himself in Terrassa within his own circle of trust and has spent too much energy trying to control everything that was not in his control, including other people's opinions.

Did he really bother the Barça coach so much that the rest of the world was not able to see reality through his eyes?

It is horrible to hear Xavi Hernández hiding behind the results to ignore the lack of play.

Precisely to Xavi, who is neither Van Bommel nor Popescu.

Precisely the genius to whom you threw a bag of cement and he built three new naves for the Sagrada Familia.

Nothing matters what he tells us, but please don't let him believe it.

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