Everyone on the scale

Xavi Hernández has not only implemented a series of basic rules for wardrobe management, It has also added a series of measures to improve and optimize the resources it has on the staff. One of them, as AS has learned, is the rigorous and daily control of the weight of all the players before having breakfast and therefore before starting the training session.

All the players when they arrive at the Ciutat Esportiva necessarily pass through the scale, where your weight is noted in order to track it throughout the season, as it is considered a lack of rigor in this section may also have an impact on the high number of muscle injuries that drags the team at this start of the season.

In fact, It was Luis Enrique who gave the most added value despite weighing the players before training. His obsession with the physical issue, accompanied by coach Rafa Pol, led him to maximize this measure, going much further than Pep Guardiola, who was also obsessed with weighing, but without reaching the extreme of the now Spanish coach. With Lucho, it was mandatory to go through the scale on a daily basis and if the weight was exceeded by a certain amount, it could lead to a penalty.

After the departure of Luis Enrique, the weight control was no longer daily, being carried out weekly or every fifteen days. Now, with Xavi, the daily control returns, the monitoring and, why not, the fine in the event that the established limit is exceeded.