Laporta: “Xavi is a great coach”

Joan Laporta took advantage of his visit to Penya Barcelona de Balaguer to endorse and praise the work of Xavi Hernandez in the bank of FC Barcelona. The Barça president said Xavi “is a wonderful coach” and called for “supporting him”.

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In his argument before the penya members, Laporta underlined the permanent vocation of the coach to try to bring out the best level of the team. “Xavi is an amazing coach for me, because he always sees the positive side,” he said. “The moments of difficulty or the bad moments are spent like all culé, because he is a culé in the brain, but he recovers immediately and the positive side always goes, he always thinks how to improve and how to do it better.”, he repeated.

For the leader, Xavi’s attitude “is appreciated by a president and a board. We have to give him support,” he said. With Barça fighting to go top of the Liga and awaiting their luck in the Champions League, Laporta assured the crowd that “let’s not fool ourselves, we have a team built”.

“The Champions League? You don’t know…”

The attitude of the fans at the start of the season was equally remarkable when Laporta referred to the public attendance at the Camp Nou. “We have some unusual tickets, people come to see good football,” he stressed.

Finally, despite the general feeling that Barça will need a miracle to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League, Laporta left a door open to hope. “You don’t know,” he concluded.