09/11/2023 Act. at 22:14 CET
The bad image offered by Barça in the defeat against Shakhtar (1-0)in the Champions League, and in the fortunate victory against Real Sociedad (0-1) in the League, they have opened the season in Madrid against one of the figures most hated by Real Madrid fans.
And is not for less. The current Barça coach was as a player one of Real Madrid’s biggest scourges, masterfully directing what was the best team in history, the Pep Team. At the head of that team he subdued José Mourinho’s Real Madrid. And he did it from where it hurts most for Real Madrid, from the grass, with a football excellence never dreamed of in Chamartín and that was the envy of all of Europe. And furthermore, he never had qualms about publicly showing off his culer style.
Four Champions Leagues, nine Leagues, two European Super Cups, two club World Cups, three Copa del Rey and six Spanish Super Cups, with a historic sextet (2009-2010) and a second treble (2014-2015) add to a resume that throughout his career as a footballer who placed Real Madrid in the background of football. To these titles as a player is added the League won last season with an insulting superiority over the white teamwhich left him with ten points that could have been more if he had not taken his foot off the accelerator in the last few days, when the title was already in the Blaugrana’s bag.
It is not surprising that what Joan Laporta recently coined as sociological madridismo -previously a media cavern or dairy plant- was waiting for the slightest opportunity to pounce like a hungry wolf on Xavi’s neck.
The Barça coach has faced a real firing squad these days in which all the media in the capital of Spain have participated. And the last one to take its toll on him has been the former footballer and former coach of Real Madrid Jorge Valdanowho for many years, in the absence of offers to occupy a bench, has been a commentator on Movistar+.
Valdano referred to Xavi’s speech in which he pointed to the lack of intensity to explain the difficulties his team went through in Anoeta, against Real Sociedad. The Argentine was very harsh with the Barça coach, accusing him of changing his speech and abandoning his idea of winning through play..
“It’s more of a fan’s speech than a professional’s.. What’s more, it is a speech more from any other team than from Barcelona. Barça always focuses its speech on the game. It is his traditional speech and one that Xavi has made his own for a long time,” was the assessment of a Valdano who seems to have unfinished business with Xavi. If not, it is difficult to understand ferocity of this caliber among professional colleagues.
It is surprising that the criticism comes from someone whose service record as a coach is limited to one League with Real Madrid… and an improper lineup for putting five non-EU nationals at the same time – one more than allowed – in a League match against the Racing, the 1996-1997 season, which cost him his position at Valencia.
Nor can his resume as a footballer be compared to that of Xavi: two Leagues and two UEFA Cups.
2023-11-09 21:14:17
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