Xavi Hernández

[Bobo32]

There's some benefit of being shorter too, look at Messi for example. Good luck doing those turns when you are 180cm+ or have that balance.

Especially for attackers, being smaller and quicker can be a huge advantage. Tough for tall CBs to follow that quick movement. (Pique for example haha, he turns like a boat and loses every 1vs1, because his lack of movement).


Of course, if you could make Messis abilities in a 190cm person, that would be better, so in a sense, BBZ is right but in a sense wrong.

It depends what's your job on the pitch. Some jobs height is useful, some things no. Also depends on how the team is built, if everyone's very short, then it might be an issue.

It's strange that all the best players are short.
Maradona, Messi of course... Pele at 1,73, also slightly short.
Xavi, Iniesta, Modric, Verratti, Makelele, Kante are different kinds of midfielders, all short. Scholes the best englishman...
Cannavaro the only recent defender to win a ballon d'or, and he is the shortest central defender you could think of. Puyol is the best Barcelona had, and also the shortest they had more or less. Alves the best right back, Carlos maybe the best left back...

The great players that are even slightly longer than average are the exceptions.

 

[iniestaGOAT]

It's strange that all the best players are short.
Maradona, Messi of course... Pele at 1,73, also slightly short.
Xavi, Iniesta, Modric, Verratti, Makelele, Kante are different kinds of midfielders, all short. Scholes the best englishman...
Cannavaro the only recent defender to win a ballon d'or, and he is the shortest central defender you could think of. Puyol is the best Barcelona had, and also the shortest they had more or less. Alves the best right back, Carlos maybe the best left back...

The great players that are even slightly longer than average are the exceptions.

Correct in all except carlos. He is not the best LB. He was a joke.

 

[Bobo32]

Correct in all except carlos. He is not the best LB. He was a joke.

You will be called a troll for that here. Anyway both Alba and Marcelo are short, too. Maldini was lengthy though. Fachettinho as well lol

 

[Laplacian]

Football is a pretty egalitarian sport. Short and tall people can be great players really. The only exception I guess is that goalkeepers and to a lesser extent CBs need to be tall. The distribution of height amongst forwards is pretty evenly spread out, now and across history. From Henry, Zidane, Ronaldo, Ronaldo Nazario, to Messi, Pele, Maradona and so on.

Arguing that you need to be a certain height to succeed as a forward or midfielder is just purely wrong. I think some of you, especially BBZ, have some weird insecurities about height because that to me seems like the only explanation for you to obsessively argue for it on a consistent basis.

 

[Bobo32]

Maradona himself said that one of the great things about football is that a chubby dwarf as himself could become the best in the world
It is true that there is a place for a Peter Crouch or Zlatan Ibrahimovic as well, but if anything, it seems like most of the absolute best players are significantly smaller than average, if anything.

 

[messi2140]

Parking the bus and wasting time from the 75th minute against Osasuna. Tiki taka football around the corner.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Coward.

 

[KingLeo10]

Parking the bus and wasting time from the 75th minute against Osasuna. Tiki taka football around the corner.

Champagne football. We got the Walmart version of Pep.

 

[El Gato]

So many L's for serghei over the years

So little time to take them

 

[Luftstalag14]

All the anger, anguish shown by him and the talks of new era and reset translate into this shit, parking the bus against Osasuna?

Talk is cheap. Stop acting, you are not an actor, Xavi. Or perhaps you are, learning from the dive master of your former teammate, Prof. Busquets. Fuck this.

 

[mc_lovin]

I liked out 2nd half, but the incoming 2-2 was painfully obvious.

 

[hardyboy]

Knew he would flop the day he approved the signing of Dani Alves. I even said we would get knocked out of the group stage in CL. Whenever i think this is the rock bottom and this team can't go further down, They surprise me.

 

[KingLeo10]

Look Messi had his flaws, but all the Messi haters wanted him gone because he was "chief amigo" and his staying meant other seniors couldn't be benched.

Turns out Xavi is chief amigo as [MENTION=11668]khaled_a_d[/MENTION] pointed out months ago. Imagine letting Busquets start EVERY game. And no punishment for MATS/Pique for horror shows. GTFO.

 

[evilhita666]

Long term project some say, hahaha... And all the cringe dancing and singing during his presentation, oof! Should go back to Qatar, that is his level...

 

[te amo barca]

Deserves this result for his subs and approach at 1-2.