Josep María Orobitg says that when Carlos Busquets, former Barça goalkeeper and Sergio’s father, told him to advise his son when he was called up to play for the first team, he asked Pep Guardiola, who had trained him at Barça B: ” How is this a boy?” Pep’s reply allayed any doubts one of the main players’ agents who has negotiated a large number of contracts for players coming from Barça’s academy could have: “He is very good, he will succeed with me.” He wasn’t wrong. It would eventually be recognized as the perfect ‘5’.
Then the 2007-2008 season was running and Sergio was 17 years old. Guardiola, then a Barça coach, made his debut on the second day. Busquets (Sabadell, 16/08/1988) would start a fast career. With no professional record, Orobitg managed to earn 15,000 euros per game played, plus a 500 bonus for blocks of five. He started earning money, as well as credit, trust and experience, until he earned the title of one of the most complete midfielders world football has ever had. Little by little, Sergio became a model player with superior intelligence on the field. His game, questioned today by the Catalan press and Barcelona fans, has lyrics and music. It has been wanted by PSG and also by Manchester City. Despite winning more than at Barcelona, he never wanted to leave.
The Catalan midfielder is a resourceful marvel on the pitch. He was not trained in a laboratory. He is not a dribbler, but his passes make many rivals lose. He is not a born defender, but he is a destroyer of the opponent’s game. There’s a part of the field that looks like he owns it. As a footballer he grew up on the street and that is why he is considered a neighborhood player, he shrinks for nothing or no one, journalistic criticism does not affect him. They say that he is a natural player. Also a complete football player. When he was just emerging, Johan Cruijff wrote about him one day: «He makes the difficult easy. One-two and go. He also teaches without a ball. He’s in the right place to intercept and recover just enough ». Former Spanish coach Vicente del Bosque defined it more forcefully during the World Cup in South Africa, in which Spain were declared champions: “If I were a player, I would like to be like Busquets.” And then he added: “He does everything. He’s generous. He empties defensively. And when things go well for him, football becomes more fluid.
He is the third Barcelona player with the most games played (695). He is also the active national team player with the most games played (140) and third in history. And always discreetly, without making much noise, with humility, thinking first of the team, of his teammate, a prodigy of a player who has hardly stood on the podiums of outstanding footballers to be rewarded. He only achieved a ‘Bravo’ in 2009, but he can say out loud that he is World and European champion with Spain, and that he won 8 Leagues with Barça, 7 Copas del Rey, 6 Spanish Super Cups, 3 Champions, 3 European Super Cups and 3 Club World Cups. Very little appears on social networks. On Twitter, he has more than 426,000 followers and on Instagram, he has 8.5 million. A good friend of his current coach, Xavi Hernández, the coach who will surely fire him from Barça. Earlier, Luis Enrique gave him the opportunity to retire through the front door during the World Cup in Qatar.
JM Asensi | Former player of Barcelona and Spain
“It will be his last World Cup. I see him as always. A lot of people say he doesn’t run as much now because he’s older. It’s not true. It’s great. If he has Luis Enrique’s confidence and he’s calm, then he is irreplaceable for me because of his talent and personality. You have to benefit from their experience.”
Source: La Verdad
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