Great success in Barcelona: Xavi Hernández will continue as coach, despite the failure in the League and Champions League

2024 FC Barcelona It has been full of failures. The team led by Xavi Hernández he is not fighting, mathematically, for any title this season where, his greatest achievement, was reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League after almost four years.

The crisis in which the Barcelona A few years ago, it seemed that a new victim was going to take over. On January 27, after losing to Villareal, Xavi announced that at the end of the season he was going to present his resignation. because of the team's poor results. Since that announcement, the culé team improved its game until reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

The enthusiasm of the Blaugrana fans reappeared with the coach's face after, in the Parc des Princes, his team will beat a difficult PSG 3-2. However, in a week a ghost that has been stalking those of Barcelona for a long time would appear again: they lost at home in the second leg 4-1 and they were eliminated, once again, from the Champions League.

Rumors suggested that the team's helmsman, along with his coaching staff, had their hours numbered on the bench. Camp Nou. This Wednesday, a meeting at the house of Joan Laportain which the club's sports directors and the coach were present, a decision was made about his continuity in the team.

The sensations were not the best. Several names were in the main Spanish newspapers to take his place, one of them, that of the former Mexican soccer player and coach of Barcelona 'B', Rafa Marquez. Xavi was aware of the rumours. Even in a video published by the portal 'Sport' In his 'X' account, the Catalan is seen making expressions of disappointment.

Stays.

However, in an unexpected turn of events that seemed almost certain and put Xavi out of the team, in the absence of official statements, the coach will comply with the signed contract. The Spanish press assumes his reinstatement in a meeting attended by club personalities such as Deco, Enric Masip and Bojan Krkic.

According to the newspaper 'Sport', the former culé footballer would have requested the arrival of top-level reinforcements along with his intention to continue at the club. In the absence of an official statement, The journalists who were guarding outside Laporta's house confirmed the news which goes against all the rumors and assumptions that the fans had after the failure that was the season of the culés led by Xavi.

According to the Spanish press, the president of Barcelona yesand will refer to the situation next Thursday at a press conference. For now, the coach would continue until 2025, the date on which his contract ends.