Vilajoana: “My project for Barça focuses on the quarry”

Xavi Vilajoana is one of the candidates to lead Barcelona after the stormy departure of Josep Bartomeu from the culé leadership. The elections will be held on January 24 That will be decided by the manager who will lead a sports project that is exciting, as his fans claim.

Vilajoana, who attended the SER microphones, is clear about it: “I want to be president of Barcelona because the team needs a lot of experience and knowledge and of people who have experienced the club in the first person”. It is necessary to remember that Vilajoana played in the lower categories of Barça.

Looking ahead, believe that “Grassroots football has to be one of the pillars and La Masía should also be”. In addition, it ensures that will try to convince Messi to sit at a table and find out what he wants: “For FC Barcelona it is very important to listen to Leo and see from there how the best solution can be found.

For those who associate him with Bartomeu for having been part of the previous Board of Directors, Vilajoana replies that is successor to his own work: “I have always given myself to the club in body and soul and now I think it is time to lead the institution in the first person because I believe that Barcelona needs an address with a profile closely linked to the name of the club“.

Vilajoana worked with Laporta, Rosell and Bartomeu, of which he says that “each one had his successes”. He does not want to stay with the manager who causes him the most sympathy, or vice versa.

As for political positions, he comments that he only makes political references when he goes to vote: “If I am president of Barcelona I will never make statements of this type in a personal capacity, because I represent an institution, not myself. “

His coach makes it clear that It will be Ronald Koeman. He does not want to disrupt the team's plans by then being in the middle of the competition.