The Barcelona coach, Xavi Hernández, assured that the decision to reverse the decision to leave the Barça bench at the end of this season is due to the fact that, in January, when he announced it, He considered that the club needed a change and now he feels the opposite.
In an appearance held in the press room of the Joan Gamper Sports City, with 76 accredited media outlets, the club’s entire sporting leadership, directors and Xavi’s two assistants, the Egarense coach and the Barça leader, explained the reasons. of the change of course.
Both protagonists had to clear up many unknowns at the hearing. The most relevant, perhaps, is to explain the reasons why the Catalan coach has finally decided to fulfill his contract until June 2025, something that on January 27, following a tough defeat once morest Villarreal (3-5), seemed like a chimera. , since Xavi assured that even if he won the ‘Champions’ he would not continue as a tenant on the Barça bench.
“Rectifying is wise“, repeated on several occasions throughout the appearance the Barça coach, who acknowledged that the delayed resignation at the end of January was perhaps a “wrong” decision because now he feels the opposite and believes that the project “It has not finished“.
And the Barça coach looks “strong”, even though he is convinced that the environment “will continue to be cruel, unpleasant in adverse situations” that the team will have to overcome in the future.
“The most important thing is to think regarding the entity. When we met with the president, I put my position at his disposal, but then I found great confidence from the president, the sports area and the entire board,” he argued.
Xavi assured that the support of his technical team has also been very important, as well as “the complicity of the players”, who have made him see that “this project has to continue.”
However, the coach stated that the decision to continue is irrevocable, regardless of how the season ends: “I have an intact commitment, what happened in January will not happen once more.”
The coach, who was accompanied in the press room by his two assistants, Sergio Alegre and his brother Óscar, denied the information that, throughout Wednesday, suggested that his continuity was conditional on a series of changes in the coaching staff. . “There won’t be any changes to the staff,” he said.
However, Laporta pointed out in his speech that “Both the sports management and the coach will work to improve what needs to be improved.“.
“We think that this season, despite not having achieved the objectives, there are positive things. I see that the project is intact in terms of confidence and enthusiasm. There will be some adjustments, but I am not going to give pleasure to those who want to ruin it all for not having achieved the objectives this season,” he added.
The president was especially “happy” for the continuity of the Catalan coach – “I have always wanted him to continue”, he pointed out – and revealed that there were no discrepancies regarding the decision with his fellow board members, with whom he met on the same Wednesday the 24th. April before meeting Xavi.
“At the board meeting we did not vote on Xavi’s continuity because I was waiting to meet with him. I explained the situation. Yesterday he rushed, Deco called me who was with to all the managers, all of them congratulated me and encouraged me because it is the best decision. We were all unanimously satisfied with this decision,” he noted.
Laporta, who at one point during the press conference became emotional, said that The agreement with Xavi in the meeting held at his house was resolved quickly.
“I am especially happy. What I wanted has happened. The board of directors has unanimously supported this decision. We are all convinced that it is the best decision, it gives stability to the institution and consolidates a project that will be even more winning,” Laporta insisted.
The event ended with the protagonists of the appearance, all the members of the sports leadership – the vice president, Rafael Yuste, the advisor Enric Masip, the sports director, Anderson da Souza Deco, the youth football coordinator, Bojan Krkic, and the manager Joan Soler – and Xavi Hernández’s assistants joining hands and posing in front of the media in a show of unity.
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