2023-11-27 14:10:15
On most occasions we know that something is good or bad by pure contrast. For example, we know that pata negra ham is delicious because other foods are not as delicious, for example chopped. And we know that the 1970 Brazil team played soccer extraordinarily well because other teams don’t do it and are stupid. Thus, at a glance, of the 78 games that Barça has played to date in the League with Xavi on the bench, 65 have been very bad, 10 average and 3 good, so that this team with that coach has been playing in a way very mediocre almost, almost since he landed on the bench. I have already alluded several times to a scene from a movie called Traffic in which Michael Douglas, who has just been appointed anti-drug prosecutor, meets with his predecessor to ask for advice and the latter tells him the story of a KGB director who He also asks for help from the man he has just relieved of his position; It turns out that the dismissed person gives two envelopes to his replacement and tells her, “Look, when you can’t stand the pressure anymore, read the first letter. And when it’s truly unbearable, read the second.” The director of the KGB started his mandate without problems but, around the sixth month, the criticism began to intensify, which ended up being unbearable. And then he opens the first envelope and reads the letter: “Blame it all on me.” And that’s what he does: “This was terrible, the previous head of the KGB was a disaster, he left this a wasteland for me…”, and the tactic works for a while but, as the months go by, they come back against him . And, when he can’t stand it anymore, he opens the second envelope and reads the second letter: “Go ahead and write two letters.”
That’s happening to Xavi right now, he’s about to open the second envelope to read the second letter. He has already blamed, as far as is known, the quality of the squad, the grass, the sun, the schedule, the rival, of course the referees… Except for him, everyone is to blame. But the fact is that Xavi never talks about football: sometimes it’s the intensity, other times the concentration, other times the mentality… he seems more like a psychologist than a coach. Against Rayo it was the latter, the mentality. Barcelona, which has a billion euros budget, failed in its mentality against Rayo Vallecano, who must be around forty million. But what football arguments does Xavi’s Barça have beyond talking about the excellence of Cruyff’s Barça or Guardiola’s? What does that team play? When has Xavi changed a game from the bench? Does anyone remember it? Which players has he made better? There is no reference to coach We know that this Barça plays very badly because we saw them play very well… but with other footballers.
You can come to Al-Sadd and sell a milonga to your dressing room because you are Xavi Hernández. You can also go to the Barça locker room full of kids and some veteran stars and try to repeat the same operation. You can even do what Xavi did on Saturday at the press conference after the Vallecas game, remember the Spanish League and Super Cup won the previous season. But at Barça, like at Real Madrid, you have to play well and win, and Barça plays poorly and loses or at most draws, and when they win they do so at the last minute. And the worst of all, what is going to put an end to Xavi, is that he then talks about excellence and total football and Catalan ambition. If Xavi were humble, if he were critical, if Xavi said what Koeman said, that “it is what it is”, if Xavi did not look down on the rest of humanity… even in this situation He gets down on us and also, apparently, on his own players. The experiment is about to come out frog. He dated Guardiola. Even to Madrid with Zidane. But not Xavi. Xavi is not a coach for Barça but for Al-Saad. There they do buy Cruyff and Guardiola’s motorcycle of excellence. But, what about yours, Xavi? And your own excellence?
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