When talking about Iniesta, Alexia has it very clear: „“ It’s talent „“

thus they achieved so much. It was astonishing".

Alexia remembers that from that time, the golden years of Guardiola’s Barça, she began to notice a specific footballer: Xavi Hernández. "I started going to their campuses in the summer and when I arrived at Barça again one day we passed each other and they recognized me. The other day I sent him the photos of when I was little with him on campus. Is very nice. From him I take on all that, his vision of the game, never hiding, the control he has over the times …", declares the ’11‘ blaugrana.

When talking about Iniesta, Alexia has it very clear: "Is slow". Even so, the culé claims to feel more identified with Xavi "for its qualities". "Iniesta has a dribbling ability that I think is unique", ditch.

Your ideal footballer

Regarding her childhood as a soccer player, she remembers her father’s instructive talks and constructive criticism: "My father used to scold me a lot. I think that if I were now seeing how self-critical I have become, it wouldn’t be like that. But as a child she was like that. I will never forget after a game with the Catalan team, that we had won and I was happy and told me ‚you don’t defend very badly‘. I have that recorded"he says between laughs.

As for her ideal footballer, Alexia aims high: "I prefer Xavi’s vision of the game, Puyol’s aerial game, Jenni’s magic and creativity, Abilí’s right leg and Leo’s left.". Certainly not bad.

One of the players on loan from FC Barcelona, ​​Jean-Clair Todibo, seems to have a future outside of the Barça club. His great performances in the Bundesliga with Schalke 04 could allow Barça to complete a correct operation economically speaking.

05/15/2020

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Jean-Clair Todibo

The French footballer has commented in an interview for Bild that he sees his future in Gelsenkirchen: "First of all I want to finish the season here and get a good position in the table. As for the future, the truth is that I imagine staying here".

Todibo has shown good performance in the German team, and has known how to adapt to the Bundesliga and the Schalke 04 environment. The defender has commented what he likes the most: "The stadium, the incredibly passionate fans, the coach who gives me a lot of confidence … I settled in very quickly, and the whole team is perfect.

However, the economic crisis that will cause the coronavirus pandemic makes it difficult for the 20-year-old to continue at the club. "It is not necessary to be a visionary to say that the real probability that Todibo continues has decreased with the crisis", has assured Schalke sporting director Jochen Schneider.

But it seems that the French center-back will not lack ‚girlfriends‘ if Barça decides to put it on the market. In recent weeks it has been rumored that both Inter Milan and Juventus would have been interested in him to enter operations such as Lautaro or Pjanic, and other clubs such as Everton would also have asked about him.

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01/13/2020

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Ivan San Antonio @sanantheone

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Josep Maria Bartomeu Ernesto Valverde

the crisis of the bench of the FC Barcelona

Ernesto Valverde is no longer coach of FC Barcelona. The Barça club will announce, in an official statement this Monday, the farewell to the Extremadura coach after two and a half seasons at the controls of the culé dressing room.

What are the reasons for this hasty goodbye? The runrún comes from afar and its intensity has been modulated to the rhythm set by Barça’s results and the sensations that the team 1xbet poker has been offering. After the debacle against Roma two seasons ago, the noise reached a worrying volume, but not as much as after losing to Liverpool in the last semi-finals of the Champions League. Each episode has further eroded the confidence of the Barça leadership in Valverde until the defeat in the semifinals of the Spanish Super Cup has led to a solution as drastic as his dismissal.

The reasons for his goodbye

Keeping a coach precarious was not the ideal solution for the club, so the board headed by Josep Maria Bartomeu has made the decision to dispense with Valverde as soon as an alternative has been assured. 

Within the Culé entity there was fear that the team would enter a negative dynamic and that the green shoots shown by the team in droppers are less and less frequent. The club is afraid that the trend that is sensed after games such as El Clásico or the defeat against Atlético – despite the good game shown that day – will end up being confirmed and the Blaugrana will end the season blank, without being able to conquer any Title. Bartomeu understands that his duty was to intervene before that happened.

In addition, the club has taken into account underlying reasons that have forced us to take action on the matter. One of them is the condescension shown by Ernesto Valverde towards his staff. From the offices they believe that the coach’s leadership capacity was non-existent and that those who actually command the dressing room are the players. Barça assumes that, in this section, not all the fault lies with the coach and that the club, at certain times, has also helped the squad end up exercising much more power than it should have.

Nor did he end up convincing the sports bet of Txingurri. What at first was read as a declaration of intent on his part, agitating the squad and making constant changes in search of the best possible eleven, is now interpreted as the absence of a project. Too many footballers have suffered from Valverde’s changes of judgment since the season started. The examples of Aleñá and Rakitic are meridians. Furthermore, they have also lost faith in their ability to read the matches, before and during them. The most recent examples are the duels against Real Madrid and Atlético. 

The Barça board had crossed that line that separates doubts from certainty. If before Valverde generated doubts, now there was absolute certainty that it was time to move the bench. Only time will give or take away the reason after the decision made. 

Real Madrid drew in Leganés (2-2) on the last day of LaLiga Santander 2019-2020. This equalizer of the whites, who were proclaimed champions last Thursday, ends a streak of 10 consecutive victories in all the games played in the league restart. The madridistas finished with 87 points, 5 more than Barça, second.

07/19/2020

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In addition to whites and culés, Atlético de Madrid and Sevilla will play the next edition of the Champions League. The two finished with 70 points and with the goal average tied, with which it was the general goal difference that gave the colchoneros third place. It should be noted that both the Simeone and Lopetegui teams, as well as Madrid, have remained unbeaten in the final 11 games played after the break by CoVid-19.

The three places for the second continental competition, the Europa League, are for Villarreal, Real Sociedad and Granada. The great loser has been Getafe that lost in La Nucía against Levante (1-0), with a goal from local Koke in minute 98 when the Azulones desperately sought victory, since the draw did not serve them. The Madrid team, which has only won one game after the league interruption, was classified for Europe all day until Januzaj from San Sebastian scored the equalizing goal for Real at Atleti in the 87th minute. 

Finally, the relegation places have been occupied by Leganés, with 36 points, Mallorca, with 33 points, and Espanyol, last with 25. Celta were saved on the last day, despite drawing at Cornellà-El Prat (0 -0) thanks to the fact that Lega was not able to beat Madrid.

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Although the game was inconsequential at the qualifying level, Barça took advantage of the last LaLiga 2019-20 game to claim and secure Leo Messi’s Pichichi.

07/19/2020

On 07/20/2020 at 11:00 CEST

David salinas @flytoapia

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Leo Messi

Likewise, the Argentine, who added a new assist, also became the player with the most goal passes throughout a season (21), surpassing Xavi Hernández, who gave 20 the 2008-09 season.

The Barça team, which scored a 0-5 and smashed another three balls into the wood, left very good feelings for the next game (on August 8, of the Champions League against Napoli at the Camp Nou) and helped their captain to secure the Pichichi trophy, a prize that the Argentine would have gladly exchanged for the league title or would have savored with greater enthusiasm had he arrived accompanied by the domestic tournament.

Messi’s double was the number 127 he signed with Barça, 175 if you add the 41 hat-tricks, the 6 pokers and the poker, which also include doublets.