The president confirms the coach at the gates of the classic after the European debacle
“He’s going to go further. He’s a great coach and I’m sure he’ll give us great successes”
The president of Barça, Joan Laporta, made it very clear that the Board of Directors fully supports Xavi Hernández despite the fact that the team could be eliminated in the Champions League group stage: “The trust with Xavi is total. He is a great coach and he will surely go further and give us great successes in the future. He knows the club perfectly, he knows how we play and he is ideal for Barça He has our support and he knows it and it is important that he knows that there is this trust so that things go well”, he said in statements to ‘Barça TV’.
Laporta revealed that he spoke with Xavi after the draw against Inter. “I went down to his office like I usually do. I saw him sad, touched and hurt like all the culés. But Xavi has a virtue and that is that in any complicated situation he always knows how to see the positive things. I like that and I know that he is going to get ahead with the team because he is doing a great job. We were all excited about this Champions League, but there are other competitions like the League that we can win”.
The Blaugrana president also indicated that “in the last few hours I have spoken with him and he is excited. We are going to accompany him to Madrid and we will be with him in an important match at the Bernabéu. The project is going to go ahead. It is clear that if in the A good result is given in the classics, that helps, but no matter what happens, the sports project continues because the trust is absolute.”