Joan Laporta has actively and passively transmitted his total and absolute confidence in the coach of the men’s first team, Xavi Hernández. Despite the bad sporting moment that the team is going through – aggravated by the defeat in the final of the Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid -, the president’s support for his coach is firm and this has been conveyed in different areas.
However, and as Xavi himself acknowledged in a press conference, he remains in office given that he has been fulfilling the objectives set for him by the Catalan club. He is aware that The moment he doesn’t do it, he won’t become a problem for Barça and will take a step aside..
In this sense, and according to ‘Esport 3’, one of the options contemplated by the culé sports director, Deco, in the event that Xavi Hernández does not continue leading the first team is Thiago Motta. The current Bologna coach maintains a very close relationship with the Blaugrana executive, which has lasted beyond the time they coincided as footballers in the Camp Nou locker room.
Deco and Motta coincided as Barça players between 2004 and 2007 / Joan Ignasi Paredes
The Italian-Brazilian has spent his entire career as a professional coach in Italy. He started at Genoa in October 2019 until the end of the year. In the summer of 2021 he took charge of Spezia during that season to make the jump to Bologna in the 2022/23 academic year. Currently, his team is seventh in Serie A, two points away from the Champions League places.
Motta debuted with the Barça first team in the 2001/02 season and was one of Deco’s closest friends when he landed in the Catalan capital in the summer of 2004.. The Italian-Brazilian put an end to his time as a culé in the summer of 2007, after 147 games as a Blaugrana – coinciding in 40 of them with Deco on the pitch. After his long time at the Camp Nou, he spent one season at Atlético de Madrid, another at Génova, two and a half at Inter and six and a half at Paris Saint-Germain until he hung up his boots.
2024-01-17 17:47:16
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