Xavi and Gerrard will make their big debut as a coach at Barcelona and Aston Villa.
The big day is approaching. Landed just before the international break, Xavi and Gerrard will start the first match of their second life. For these icons, it will be above all a question of not imitating two other former glories who broke their teeth when starting their coaching career.
Like Pirlo, Xavi chose the club of his exploits to begin his first adventure as a coach in Europe. In 2020, the silky midfielder had donned the costume of T1 at Juventus. But the Old Lady was light years away from what he had known after the turbulent Sarri episode. Quickly, the ex-regista had chosen to change everything. But he had run into much deeper problems and an institutional crisis that had prevented him from working as he really wanted.
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