Xavi Hernández

[raskolnikov]

People would not say this if he went to the US. You underestimate how he will be living in Qatar, wont be some tent in the desert or Syria style. He will be living in a futuristic hyper modern city like Royalty.
Like many places when you are rich life is very good, only poor people suffer (which is sadly is the overwhelming majority).

 

[Mido]

It is a bit surprising ,but it seems that Busquets is actually a popular leader in the team and seen as a future captain

I hope you're right, and I don't wanna put any controversy at all, but I believe Mascherano shines when he is indeed lead and not leading.

I am fine with Iniesta, eventhough the charisma gap between him and Xavi is huge. I don't know much about Busquet's personality , he is a pure product of La Masia, so he must definitely know how things work at Barca.

 

[klc123]

Zidane is overrated as hell, I like him but he wasnt that good as how people make him out to be. I remember him playing subpar for many games for Real. His wc 98 and 06 are very overrated as his Real period.

Wow. Are you completely delusinoal?
Zidane may have been a madrista, but saying he was over-rated just makes you seem like you are either sour or know nothing about football.
And to say that his world cup in 1998 was over-rated when he was the best player in the french team, as well as scoring twice in the final and earning man of the match. That is like saying Iniesta's 2010 world cup was over-rated.

Back on topic.
A part of me is sad that I'll never get to see Xavi play live again, and that I won't see him leading the team next season. Even after everything i've seen Messi do, Xavi will still be my favourite player of all time.

But I'm also incredibly happy for him. If there is one player in barca's history who deserves a treble winning season as a send off, it is Xavi. I really hope the team can do it for him.

I eagerly look forward to the day when he returns in a coaching role. I'm certain a player of his experience and intelligence has just as much to give to the club as a coach/manager as he has given us as a player.

 

[khaled_a_d]

I hope you're right, and I don't wanna put any controversy at all, but I believe Mascherano shines when he is indeed lead and not leading.

I am fine with Iniesta, eventhough the charisma gap between him and Xavi is huge. I don't know much about Busquet's personality , he is a pure product of La Masia, so he must definitely know how things work at Barca.

Last year captain election Xavi,Iniesta&Messi was clear top 3 .Busquets was the one who was really voted .ahead of Mascherano and another homegrown like Pique who is older,and been in the 1st team before Busquets and also well liked among his teammates .
Puyol choose him to take his number too .and it is said during his renewal that hs is seen as a future captain .many signs he is actually influential in the team more than it looks

 

[raskolnikov]

Wow. Are you completely delusinoal?
Zidane may have been a madrista, but saying he was over-rated just makes you seem like you are either sour or know nothing about football.
And to say that his world cup in 1998 was over-rated when he was the best player in the french team, as well as scoring twice in the final and earning man of the match. That is like saying Iniesta's 2010 world cup was over-rated.

That he was very good doesnt mean he cant be overrated? Zidane often sucked for Real, Bernabeu whistled him plenty of times, now they are of course a fickle bunch so its not that telling but he does get overrated due to his big game goals.
Zidane at the wc 98 got send off early and only showed up in one of the knock out games performing. Into he final would anyone rate him best player of the tournament? no, that had to be one of Ronaldo, Bergkamp or Suker. Him popping up scoring 2 headers in the final made him get all the glory and an undeserved ballon d'or as well.
2006 was the same story, he gets overrated as hell for that Brazil game. Zidane to me is in the same bracket as Xavi/Iniesta/Nedved/Rivaldo and a few others I have seen live. I might consider him a little better than some or worse like I do with the rest but its not that huge a gap like people often make it out to be, as if Xavi and Iniesta together equal or are inferior to Zidane. Ridiculous.

 

[Topolino]

Xavi is not what you call a big game player.

He is an all game player, never giving up, always being perfect. I doubt we'll see someone as good and consistent as El Maestro in the near future.

To me, he's the best in the whole history of football. With him, everything was possible.

 

[khaled_a_d]

Wow. Are you completely delusinoal?
Zidane may have been a madrista, but saying he was over-rated just makes you seem like you are either sour or know nothing about football.
And to say that his world cup in 1998 was over-rated when he was the best player in the french team, as well as scoring twice in the final and earning man of the match. That is like saying Iniesta's 2010 world cup was over-rated.

The word overrated doesn't mean a player isn't great .Zidane is legend but many argue he is the greatest of all time and laugh if people rated players like Ronaldo the phenomena or Messi ahead of him .that is overrating
Also ,he wasn't the best player in 1998 France.that is a joke .take those 2 headers and he is easily one of their worst players . red card and suspension along some disappearance in the games
Barthez ,Blanc ,Thuram ,Deschamps,Djorkaeff was more influential than Zidane

 

[aaron101]

Puyol, Valdes and now Xavi. All 3 captains are gone. Only left from the 4 captains of the Pep era is Iniesta who is also going to play less in the coming seasons. Messi will be a captain for a long time.

 

[klc123]

The word overrated doesn't mean a player isn't great .Zidane is legend but many argue he is the greatest of all time and laugh if people rated players like Ronaldo the phenomena or Messi ahead of him .that is overrating
Also ,he wasn't the best player in 1998 France.that is a joke .take those 2 headers and he is easily one of their worst players . red card and suspension along some disappearance in the games
Barthez ,Blanc ,Thuram ,Deschamps,Djorkaeff was more influential than Zidane

I've never heard "many" people say Zidane is the best player of all time.
Zidane the worst player for france in the 1998 world cup? lol
I guess you're right. The player that shares the most number of world cup final goals with pele and jeoff hurst is overrated as fuck and was actually frances worst player in one of those world cups. I mean, world cup final goals are flukes right?

 

[draconifire]

Gracias Xavi. You were the one that made me fell in love with this beautiful team playing The Beautiful game. It will be hard for all of us.

 

[Messi]

Xavi was the reason i started following Barca sometime around the turn of the millenium. It almost feels like the heart of the club leaving. Best of luck and thank you Xavi!!! Hope he comes back to the club once his active career ends

 

[Luftstalag14]

I am a grown man but I really want to cry and I am fighting to contain my tears.

Forever, Mr. Captain, Xavi, Barca legend.

 

[Topolino]

They made a movie about Zidanes last game for Madrid, why not make a movie of Xavi in the same style?

 

[raskolnikov]

I've never heard "many" people say Zidane is the best player of all time.

What about easily the best player since Maradona? that one came around quite often pre Messi.

Look how underrated Rivaldo is compared to Zidane, he was even better than him at wc's and they are more or less at the same level, yet you put a poll up it will be Zidane winning it 90-10% type which makes him overrated.

 

[khaled_a_d]

I've never heard "many" people say Zidane is the best player of all time.
Zidane the worst player for france in the 1998 world cup? lol
I guess you're right. The player that shares the most number of world cup final goals with pele and jeoff hurst is overrated as fuck and was actually frances worst player in one of those world cups. I mean, world cup final goals are flukes right?

There is 6 games b4 the final man .Zidane got a red card in one of them and suspended for the other 2 and he wasn't good in the other games either
Scoring in the finals made people go crazy for what he did.but other than that yes.he wasn't one of their best player at all