“Xavi Hernández returns home, six years after his Camp Nou farewell”. It is in a tweet that Barça formalizes the return of the club’s child as a coach. Wednesday October 27, after another defeat, the club thanked Ronald Koeman in office since the summer of 2020.
The return of the “Maquina”
End of the suspense on the side of FC Barcelona. The Qatari club of Al Sadd, which Xavi had coached since 2019, had announced a few hours earlier that they had reached an agreement with the Catalans and had posted on social networks images of the Spaniard bidding farewell to the players. Xavi Hernández is the new coach of FC Barcelona. The 2010 world champion will have the heavy task of returning to victory. Only one victory in the last five meetings for the Catalan club, now ninth in La Liga.
After leaving Barcelona in 2015, the brilliant midfielder took charge of Al Sadd, in Qatar, where he ended his playing career (2015-2019) before starting an immediate conversion as a coach. After two years at the head of the Qatari club, he has already won the championship, the national cup and the Supercup of Qatar.
The new coach “will arrive this weekend in Barcelona and will be presented Monday at noon in a public ceremony at Camp Nou“, the club said in a statement.