Xavi’s journey has been tougher than we think – ESPN weekly

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Barcelona are champions of La Liga – and in the moment of the greatest triumph of his young managerial career, Xavi decided to talk about his own self-doubt. There have been plenty of times during this campaign when that inner demon would have had no shortage of fuel. It has been a strange season, there has been a lot wrong at Camp Nou, but throughout it all Xavi has solved problems and improved players. Here, for ESPNFC, is my snapshot of the man whose relationship with his role at FC Barcelona has never been as simple as it seems.

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0:00.0	You're going to. So across my I'd like to say rock and roll life but a bumpy interesting life
0:22.2	there are many things I've had to apologize for, but rarely my voice.
0:28.6	If this sounds like a hack saw being dragged across wood, some such similar, that I apologize.
0:38.0	It's been a week from Madrid City at Bernabel to Aberdeen for the 40th anniversary
0:47.2	celebrate.
0:48.2	What?
0:49.2	You didn't know that we were celebrating 40 years since Aberdeen beat Real Madrid in the Cup
0:56.2	Cup final in 1983. He everybody except for the late great Tati Cooper.
1:04.0	Sir Alex Ferguson who couldn't make it.
1:07.0	And the late great Teddy Scott came to Aberdeen to celebrate
1:11.0	the first of the two stars, UFA Stars that Aberdeen won.
1:16.0	That was raucous. It was fun.
1:21.0	Involved some of the greatest stories I've ever heard about a football team in terms of hilarity.
1:27.4	I thought I knew all the stories and the anecdotes and how wrong I was.
1:36.5	Absolutely hilarious to see Gordon Strach and Dinkie, Willie Miller, Big Alan McLeish, Johnny Hewitt on stage, led by the Master Legend of the Mole John McMaster.
1:46.2	I like being a legend.
1:48.2	After which, it was fantastic to be at a full but Audrey for Aberdeen Nel Nelham Hibs. Hibs I outplay
1:56.6	Aberdeen that day. I can't deny that. Hello to the CCS that's the Hib's casuals, a couple hundred of whom and I were locked on a train from Dundee to Edinburgh.
2:10.0	That was interesting.
2:11.0	Hello to the CCS.
2:13.0	Lads who actually in the end treated me with a good deal of respect and friendship.
2:19.0	That was a surprise neighbour.
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