Xavi One year as FC Barcelona Coach

This week, FC Barcelona Coach Xavi Hernandez celebrates one year in charge of Barça, during that time the club have change without any doubt. Things aren’t perfect yet, and a lot was said about the elimination from the Champions League.

However, during his one year at office, Barça won the highest percentage of games in Europe’s top five leagues. However, Barça has the best defense in Europe this season with eleven clean sheet to their name in the Spanish La Liga.

LET LOOK AT XAVI ACHIEVEMENT AS BARÇA COACH FOR THE PAST YEAR

Xavi has taken Barça out of the footballing well.

Upon arrival the team was disoriented. In the three months of confinement, Barça lost its football. Setién did not help, Koeman did not get the hang of it and Messi’s departure plunged the team into depression. With Xavi, it took relatively little time to pick up automatisms, a more worked team was seen and today, with still much to improve, they almost play from memory. You train more, you play better is now Barça slogan since the arriver Xavi.

The team competes very well in LaLiga

The 45 points from the last second round are champion team numbers. And even in the end, with the goal of playing in the Champions League achieved, he got stuck in three silly games. Now, with a better squad, Barça are at the top of the league, leaving few points along the way and, away from home, it is a winning machine. In 14 games, they won 12, drawn 1 and loss 1.

Xavi has managed to get the best performance out of the players.

The obsessive individual and collective video work is noticeable. Dembélé, De Jong and Ter Stegen are playing their best football. Nobody had given the French an instruction manual to improve and be more decisive.

Confidence in Young Players

Up to eight reserve team players have debuted this year. But, more importantly, Xavi has been trusting youngsters like Gavi ahead of Pjanic or Kessie and Balde ahead of Jordi Alba. It is the best investment for Barça.

Managed to put friendships aside

In order to have authority in the locker room, he had to assert meritocracy when it came to making the lineups. Benching Alba was a shock for the fullback after years without competition. Going head-to-head with Piqué was fundamental too.

Bottom line

One year later, and Xavi leads Barça to auch better place. Still a lot of room to imporve, but with so much talent, it looks like we can get there.

however, Xavi knows what he’s doing. And just like the young players, Xavi himself knows that confidence comes with time and experience.