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Messi, Xavi and Busquets; the new 700 club

BARCELONA, 13 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –

FC Barcelona captain Sergio Busquets reached the historic figure of 700 official matches played with the Blaugrana shirt, a milestone that places him in the more than select ‘700 club’ along with his ex-teammates Leo Messi and Xavi Hernández, now his coach at the first team.

“700, spectacular”, Xavi himself dedicated to him in a video promoted on the Catalan club’s networks. The truth is that ‘Busi’ has a difficult time, according to the rumors about his departure at the end of the season, to catch up with a Xavi who retired with 767 games. And Messi, now at PSG, is unattainable with his 778 official matches as a ‘culé’.

The man from Ciutat Badia, son of the exporter Carlos Busquets, reached the lower categories of the Blaugrana in 2005. He rose up in that Masia that bore so many good fruits in his time and made his debut with the first team in September 2008, against Racing and de la hand of its discoverer, Pep Guardiola.

After coming of age (18 years) at the club, the Spanish international midfielder faces his second season as Barcelona’s first captain in this 2022/23 campaign. Honor that demonstrates the confidence of the locker room in him.

Of the 700 games, the balance is 488 wins, 125 draws and only 88 losses. In addition, although it is not his main function, the Barca ‘5’, player number 120 of the ‘Made in La Masia’, scored 18 goals and distributed 40 assists.

Its 700 official duels are spread over 465 games in LaLiga, followed by those played in the Champions League (129), the Copa del Rey (73), the Spanish Super Cup (20), the Europa League (6), the World Cup of Clubs (5) and the European Super Cup (3).

In addition, the captain accumulates 30 titles in his record: 8 Leagues, 7 Copas del Rey, 6 Spanish Super Cups, 3 ‘Champions’, 3 European Super Cups and 3 Club World Cups.

But, how do his current colleagues see him? What’s more, as an ‘Example’ to follow, since that’s how Iñaki Peña, Eric Garcia and Joules Koundé consider him. He also repeats the adjective ‘Leader’, for Marcos Alonso and Pablo Torre. And that of ‘Captain’, for Kessié and Christensen, and ‘Leyenda’, for Sergi Roberto and Pedri.

The rest bet on: Long (Bellerín), Professional (Dembélé), Precision (Lewandowski), Phenomenon (Ter Stegen), Octopus (Balde), Humble (Memphis), Idol (Raphinha), Vision (De Jong), Referent ( Ferran Torres), Unique (Gavi), Elegance (Ansu Fati), Unmatched (Araujo), Friend (Jordi Alba) and Magic (Arnau Tenas).

George Williams

George is a football fanatic, and he himself is a good football player. He does cover Football news from around the world, and share on Sportsfinding. He makes sure that the news content he creates are factually correct, and written in good English to meet the readers’ expectations.

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