The second consecutive defeat of the Barça (Girona and Antwerp), together with the disappointing play that the team has been showing for some time, has increased the feeling of acute crisis. As usually happens in these situations, the focus has been placed on the coach, on Xaviabout which doubts emerge about his ability to make the team react and lead the locker room, particularly after President Laporta undermined his credibility with his intervention in the Antwerp call in the Champions. Four journalists from the sports section of EL PERIÓDICO (Francisco Cabezas, Marcos López, Joan Domènech and Albert Guasch) evaluate the situation in which the coach has been left after the latest adversities and the prospects that he will be able to promote a change of course.
The parallel reality, by Francisco Cabezas
The last time Barça won the Champions League was in 2015. Almost a decade has passed, and the embarrassment continues to flow freely through the pipes. We are facing a club in which the legislative and executive power passes through a president, John Laporta, with the manners of the Sun King and whom no one dares to replicate; in which the sports director, Deco, is more concerned with commanding and influencing than with building a staff that is unrelated to the interests of the representatives; and in that his coach, Xavi Hernandezunable in two years to grant an identity to his team, loses control of a locker room where leaders only exercise in the dressing room, never on the field.
The same club that thought that the ridiculous ones in Rome, Liverpool or Lisbon, even with Messi on the staff, they could only respond to the government’s delusions of Bartomeu It has been found that the most grotesque episodes are also reproduced in this time of fictitious reconstruction. Whether at home against a Girona team that showed Barça how deep the miseries of his project are. Whether against mediocre rivals like Antwerp, which was considered to be the worst team in the competition, but responsible for a fall that was too difficult to digest no matter how much Xavi It doesn’t hurt.
The leaders at the head of Barça who were supposed to rescue the ‘cruyffista’ spirit have given themselves over to something as ‘nuñista’ as the resistance in a parallel reality. Because of Cruyff All that remains is the memory, the tributes and the propaganda.
Who will Xavi go to?, by Marcos López
In turbulent times, external views are always needed to help draw a certain perspective on the delicate situation. Delicate and unprecedented because as a technician I had not lived Xavi something like that until now. It’s all new. The management of defeat, the management of the tactical model that needs changes, the management of a group of distrustful and suspicious players. Managing the president’s restless gaze. And the environment. Therefore, the coach’s coach is needed. Xavi He is the face of Barça. Face, spokesperson, image and everything… When the bad results appeared, after the fall with Madrid, he assumed that everyone would look to him in search of a solution. Weeks passed and no solution came. He has an absolutely trustworthy staff (“they are born culés,” he said to defend them before the defeat in Antwerp), but who will he turn to, beyond that group of technicians and assistants, in search of the remedy that will allow him to get out of the darkness? Perhaps it is he himself who must find the right door.
Time runs very quickly, by Joan Domènech
Recognizing that the Valencia match is a final was the confirmation that Xavi He knows that time is running out. Maybe because they told him so, maybe because he realizes that it is the climactic moment that decides his continuity or his dismissal. Time for patience is running out, not for real chances of success, I live the team in four competitions. The centrifuge that is Barça consumes games, weeks, days, at a greater speed than any other club. More than Madrid, yes, which does not have as many snipers lined up to shoot anyone who moves.
The team image also reveals that Xavi He does not find the key to restore the virtues of the team he made champion, reinforced only with the miserable investment of 3.5 million. What the poor man cost Oriol Romeu, who doesn’t get a single one. The individual errors of the footballers, increasingly fallible, are charged to the account of the coach, who collects one bill after another in the face of the indifference of a board whose attitude is not distinguished by humility and who goes around the world with an air of the historical greatness of a club that he inherited was ruined.
The Execution of Myths, by Albert Guasch
It has always been said that the Barça bench is an electric chair. Within the hyperbolic framework in which Barcelona news is usually narrated, it must be admitted that the parallelism makes sense. When the Nebraska Supreme Court began putting the finishing touches on it as a tool for the death penalty, it ruled that electric shock inflicts “intense pain and agonizing suffering.” It wasn’t like pressing a button and that’s it. More or less like a coach’s execution. The lever is activated and it gradually burns. Under the presidency of John Laporta These guidelines are being met. With derogatory comments from the president himself at a closed microphone, case of Koemanor with caudillo gestures Jesus Gil in the of Xavi. There is no myth that can be saved.
Xavi He has lost the respect of the president in a public way, visualized in the absurdity of the call. An episode that is a consequence of poor collective play, adverse results and the disconnection with the reality of the coach himself. Something superior happens when so many players seem bad. He knows bad, because even though Xavi Don’t believe it, the sentimental desire for the wind to blow in their favor predominates in the press and in the partner. Now he has entered a phase of suffering and it is increasingly difficult to believe that he will know how to disperse the burning smell, typical of an electrocution, that has permeated the environment.
2023-12-14 11:47:37
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