The paranoia of a tremendous match On the grass he sneaked to the locker room. The early announcement of the cessation of cohabitation, or the early resignation of Xavi, said in football terms, opened and closed the crisis in a flash. It is already known that Xavi will not continue, the board does not have the urgency to quickly find a replacement (without money, You save that you will not have to pay the settlement of the contract until 2025) and the replacement is being prepared in advance.
You can’t say no to an opportunity like this,” says Rafa Márquez, who knows himself as a candidate, after the subsidiary’s match in Fuenlabrada.
Now the eyes will turn towards the Barcelona Atlètic, the subsidiary, which is where Xavi’s future replacement sits. The media and fans will now be interested in seeing how the second team plays and how the hand that rocks it moves.
Rafa Márquez knows he is a candidate and ran for the first team vacancy. Joan Laporta recruited him to return to the club after the elections, in payment for the support he provided during the campaign – presumably also with the endorsement of technical reports beyond what the president’s advisors thought – and Deco, former teammate His at Barça as a player (2004-2008), supports his promotion, resuming contact in Barcelona. Márquez’s assistant is Juliano Belletti, another component of that template.
Barcelona Atlètic, where he is in his second season, is his second team as coach.
The countdown
“You can’t say no to an opportunity like this,” commented Rafa Márquez. in Fuenlabrada, after the Barça Atlètic match that they won (1-2). The former Mexican soccer player knew what was happening 600 kilometers from the Madrid town. “I will try to be prepared and do my best,” he added, aware that he has started counting down.
“I am very happy with the work I am doing with the boys. It is my second season as a coach,” explained Márquez after the victory. Barcelona Atlètic is his second club, after the internship he did at the Real Sociedad de Alcalá de Henares youth team, the obligatory internship to obtain the title of UEFA Pro coach.
“The time will come if it has to happen to me. The most important thing is to focus and continue preparing,” he added specifically about the vacancy that was opening up in Montjuïc.
Márquez’s countdown was activated by Xavi expressing his resignation to “change the dynamics of the team and relieve the club’s tension”, while the leaders digested the coach’s desire to “free himself” and the players found out on their return home.
Xavi, exonerated
The members of the squad who had spoken at the end of the football catastrophe, a term already pertinent due to the consequences it generated, had closed ranks with the coach and whom exonerated them from any responsibility.
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“What can the coach do in a play in which we fail inside the area?” Ronald Araujo asked on air, who missed “intelligence” in him and his teammates to manage a game that they had come back from 0-2 –“I had the worst 45 minutes of my career”, João Cancelo took over, arrogating all the blame for the mistake with his mistake in the goal – to 3-2 in eleven minutes of madness.
Then there were another eleven minutes of madness from the penalty called and then annulled with the 3-3 and the two goals that led to 3-5. The end of Xavi, although it will continue until June 30.