The modern-day Barcelona legend, Xavi Hernandez, on Thursday set the date for his retirement from soccer, pointing out that he is making ready himself to paintings as a teach.
"i am lucky that i am an amazing participant," said the veteran midfielder, who's a expert at Qatar's Al Sadd seeing that his departure from Barcelona in the summer of 2015 and will entire his thirty eighth 12 months in January. I did no longer suffer from accidents, I suppose my football career is nearing the end, and my index is in decline, given the professionalism in Qatar. "
"I additionally experience that I experience more confused, and that i make a first-rate attempt to get better, virtually this may be my remaining yr as a football participant, I want to extract the training card subsequent yr."
"i've a super dating with Messi each outside and inside the stadium," stated Xavi, the most prolific participant within the history of Barcelona. "he's very simple and very human, now not as hard as a few would possibly suppose. "He said.
"He (Messi) does the entirety at the pitch, from organizing the ball, to passing, to creating dreams, breaking lines, to depart Messi without a ball. "
Messi's generation, Iniesta, Boschettes and Piquet are still making achievements a decade ago. after they do not win the Champions League, they communicate approximately failure. two years ago, Barcelona won the league and the cup, however real Madrid gained the Champions League. The scores were bad, historic season ".
"I see that there is a continuity of play philosophy, even though players have joined in the previous few years, do now not match the manner Barcelona performed, however we did no longer lose style," he said. "The membership has signed with Ernesto Valverde, , both helping and sporting the identity of the Barça. "