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“It is the clearest example of someone who went to coach”

Xavi Hernandez begins his stage as a coach in the FC Barcelona And, although he has not yet made his debut as the head of the bench of the club of his life, the expectations are very high. The opinions of those who have known him, even as rivals, support the projection of Xavi in ​​his still incipient career as a coach, after debuting in this task in Qatari football. One of those rivals and at the same time a friend is Iker Casillas. The mythical former goalkeeper of Real Madrid. assured this Friday at an event organized by Mark that Xavi “is the clearest example of someone who wanted to be a coach.”

For Casillas, the former captain of the FC Barcelona He is ready to make his debut in top-level football like that of the Spanish League. “It does not surprise me that he is now a Barcelona coach. You could already see him on our national team trips,” said Casillas, currently attached to the general management of the Real Madrid Foundation. “Of course I visualize what he has in front of him: Xavi is the clearest example of someone who wanted to be a coach,” he concluded in this regard.

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With a friendly relationship since they coincided in the lower categories of the Spanish team, which only lived a critical period during the period of Jose Mourinho As a merengue coach, Casillas and Xavi have shared long and successful careers as rivals of the two great Spanish football clubs and at the same time as teammates in ‘La Roja’, with which they won a World Cup and two European Cups. But unlike Xavi, Casillas does not see himself directing. “I don’t want to be a coach. I may seem like a very soft guy, but when I get into the field, I can become somewhat aggressive. To be a coach, you must have a certain character and there were teammates who were very clear about it. title, but it is not something that I like for tomorrow ”, he pointed out.

Casillas did not miss the opportunity to venture the prominence of Real Madrid in their fetish competition. “I think Madrid can win the Champions League, there are four or five favorites,” he said, although he referred to Bayern especially. “He plays in an overwhelming way, inside and outside. Real Madrid has been able to put young people in,” he commented.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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