{"id":11001,"date":"2021-11-05T17:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=164487"},"modified":"2021-11-05T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:33:11","slug":"xavi-hernandez-is-now-the-new-manager-of-fc-barcelona-replacing-ronald-koeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/xavi-hernandez-is-now-the-new-manager-of-fc-barcelona-replacing-ronald-koeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavi Hernandez is now the new manager of FC Barcelona replacing Ronald Koeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Al Sadd revealed on Friday that a deal had been reached between the parties, Barcelona is expected to announce Xavi Hernandez\u2019s spectacular return to the club as a coach. Barca has paid the release clause for Xavi, who has been coaching in Qatar since 2019 and now returns to the club where he had such great success as a player, according to the Qatari club. \u201cThe Al Sadd administration has approved on Xavi\u2019s move to Barcelona after the payment of the release clause which was worth 5 million euros stated in the contract,\u201d\u00a0Xavi\u2019s first game set to be the Catalan derby against Espanyol at Camp Nou on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Their previous manager Koeman, who was chosen by the previous president Josep Maria Bartomeu in August 2020, helped Barca win the Copa del Rey and finish third in the league last season. They were knocked out of the Champions League in the round of 16 by Paris Saint-Germain. President Joan Laporta was never convinced by Koeman, who had to deal with massive financial problems and the loss of star player Lionel Messi. Laporta wanted to replace managers twice, once in the summer and again after the defeat to Benfica in September, but he was persuaded to stay with him due to a lack of alternatives. However, following a Clasico loss to Real Madrid and a loss to Rayo, the president took action.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Xavi to Barcelona, confirmed and here we go! Official statement from Al-Sadd on the agreement completed with Bar\u00e7a. Xavi is back and he\u2019s the new manager. \ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FCB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Xavi?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Xavi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fUdSxjbua4\">pic.twitter.com\/fUdSxjbua4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1456575107216855050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Xavi has many challenges across him\u00a0like Koeman before him, will have to work with a group of promising young players, including Spain internationals Ansu Fati, Gavi, and Pedri. With Gerard Pique, Jordi Alba, and Sergio Busquets still playing vital roles at the club, he will also have to oversee the final years of the careers of former comrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavi Hernandez, who served Barcelona for almost 2 decades and played in 17 winning titles seasons, is set to become Barcelona\u2019s new manager after replacing Ronald Koeman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":33477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[705,2286,2832,2873,500,2872],"class_list":["post-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ansu-fati","tag-barcelona-fc","tag-gavi","tag-jordi-alba","tag-pique","tag-xavi-hernandez"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}