Puyol visits and protects Xavi and sees him with energy to straighten out Barça

2023-11-15 16:36:35

In bad times, true friends appear. Unexpectedly she showed up this morning Carles Puyol, the former Barça captain, in the sports city of Sant Joan Despí. He wanted with his presence and, above all, with his message, to support his former teammate, now involved in a delicate moment because the team does not flow as he would like, while he points to the environment.

Puyol wanted to be with the man who won everything in the best Barça in history, that of Guardiola (2008-2012) and under that weight Xavi now has to live.

Puyol wanted to be with someone who had also previously shared many hardships in those years of John Gaspart in the presidency, before the virtuous circle was activated. That five years (1999-2004) where nothing was won, spanning from the end of Núñez in the box to the start of Laporta in his first stage.

Puyol went down to the grass of training ground number 2 to hug Xavi, whom he greeted effusively. And then he spoke with the players, who are now experiencing a dark period with two weeks of criticism after adding two defeats (Madrid and Shakthar) in the last four games.

“Difficult moment”

“It’s always good to meet friends,” Puyol told the club’s official media. “I see Xavi well, I think he knows perfectly well where he is, a club like Barça, which is very demanding,” the former defender acknowledged after stepping onto the pitch.

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“Now we are in a difficult moment, but I am sure that he will manage it and will know how to transmit confidence to the players, who are the ones who must lead the way,” explained Puyol, who knows, like Xavi, better than no one Barça. “We already know the house, when you lose two games or there are two games in which you don’t play very well there is criticism,” the former captain stressed.

And that is precisely what has happened. Two defeats and two wins (Real Sociedad and Alavés) with bad football. “The demands are maximum on the team and on Xavi,” added the former Barça player. “We have had difficult moments with injuries and that always makes the team’s play difficult, but I have a lot of confidence and, in the end, the evaluations must be made at the end of the season,” he claimed, joining the idea that we should be calmer now. never.