Barcelona has announced that Spaniard Xavi Hernández will no longer be the coach of its first men’s football team starting next season. This year, Xavi’s relationship with Barcelona has been rather troubled: last January he said that at the end of the season he would resign, but in April he said he had second thoughts and that he would stay. Now, however, it was the club that chose to sack him. Second BBC Sportthe coach most likely to replace him is the German Hans-Dieter Flick, who coached Bayern Munich and Germany.
This season, Barcelona finished second in the Spanish league, with many points less than Real Madrid (they are at -12 with one match left to go). In the Champions League the team exited in the quarter-finals against Paris Saint-Germain. Xavi, who was one of the strongest and most successful footballers in the history of Barcelona and Spain, arrived in November 2021. In these years as coach he won a Spanish Super Cup and a championship.
2024-05-24 15:16:46
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