Talent has to be the priority. Technical ability. Always, always. Sure, you can win without it but it's talent that makes the difference. Look at the teams: Juventus, who makes the difference? Del Piero. Gerrard, or Torres before. When you look at players and ask yourself who's the best: talento. Cesc, Nasri, Ryan Giggs — that guy is a joy, incredible. That United team was great — my English team. If I'd gone anywhere, it would have been there. In England do we overrate physical players?
You mention Carragher, Terry …. Be careful. They're fundamental. We've got Puyol. Technically he might not be the best but it's incredible the way he defends. Carragher and Terry are necessary, brilliant, but they have to adapt to technical football [not the other way round].
For me, that comes naturally — or for Messi, Iniesta or Rooney. Others have to work at it. For them it's harder to lift their head up and play a pass — but they have to.
But when a player is offered to a club, the first question is: "how tall is he? Have you seen [the Villarreal winger] Santi Cazorla? You think I'm small, he's up to here on me [Xavi signals his chest]. And yet he's brilliant. Messi is the same and he's the best player in the world. Maybe it's the culture, I don't know, but in England you're warriors. You watch Liverpool and Carragher wins the ball and boots it into the stands and the fans applaud.
There's a roar! They'd never applaud that here. Next week you play Arsenal again in the Champions League last Are they different? A kind of Barcelona-lite? Arsenal are a great team. I see Cesc carry the game, Nasri, Arshavin. The difference between them and us is we have more players who think before they play, quicker. Education is the key. Players have had 10 or 12 years here. Think, think, think. Look before you get the ball. If you're getting this pass, look to see if that guy is free.
First time. Look at [Sergio] Busquets — the best midfielder there is playing one-touch. He doesn't need more. He controls, looks and passes in one touch. Some need two or three and, given how fast the game is, that's too slow. Alves, one touch. Iniesta, one touch. Messi, one touch. Busi [Busquets], me … seven or eight players with one touch. In fact, [the youth coach] Charly [Rexach] always used to say: a mig toc.
Half a touch. If I'd ever gone to another club, I'd have been thinking about Barcelona — the link is strong. The same is happening to him. But now there's a problem: now he's expensive.
But I think that a footballer ends up playing where he wants. He has to end up here. That's not what Arsenal fans want to hear and some have accused Barcelona players, you included, of stirring trouble. Last summer there were so many remarks supposedly coming out of Barcelona ….
I hardly spoke then. I imagine they wouldn't have liked that. We're selfish, we don't realise. I also say it because I'm thinking of Cesc. He wants to come here. Barcelona has always been his dream. But of course he's Arsenal's captain, the standard bearer, a leader.
This situation is a putada [bummer] for him. He's at a club that plays his style with Wenger who has treated him well, taught him, raised him. Cesc respects him. If he'd been at, say, Blackburn it might have been easier to leave. Look, the truth is: I want him to come here. Of course. Barcelona have a very clear style and not many footballers fit. It's not easy. But Cesc fits it perfectly. I don't see new players as a threat; I don't say "this is my patch".
I'm more: "bring them here, let them play". The more talent in the middle, the better. Four or five years ago [people said] me and Iniesta couldn't play together.
We can't play together? Look how that one turned out. Yes, but this year they're much better. I think it's a disadvantage for us that we played last year. They had [too] much respect for us. It was as if they let us have the ball; we always had it, home and away. The game in London could have been a we dominated so much — but it finished This year will be different.
I was happy. I like the fact that we'll see a great game. Arsenal aren't the kind of team that come to try to putear you [piss you off, break up the game, destroy the match]. But, no, I think Arsenal will want the ball. There will be more of a game. As a fan I'd definitely pay for a ticket to see this game.
Manchester United or Chelsea would play in a more speculative way. They would leave us the ball. Arsenal won't. Does English football attract you? Spanish players always return from there raving about it. It's incredible. Una pasada. Now that is football. England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. OK, so that's an exaggeration but I've never seen anything like it. We won at Liverpool once and we were both applauded off the pitch.
In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it — and comes back a better player.
If I had ever left it would have been to England. The final is at Wembley, which makes it even more special for Barcelona, doesn't it? And this feels like a year in which you are being constantly compared to them …. In , I was 12 and my brothers went but my parents wouldn't let me.
I was in tears but it made no difference. I'd love to play at Wembley. Last year was more morbosa [about the rivalry with Real Madrid, almost a little dirty, titillating]. This year is more nostalgic, more classic. And I'm more of a nostalgic. Joined Barcelona's youth system at the age of 11 and made a scoring first-team debut aged 18 in the Spanish Super Cup final.
He has made appearances for the club, scoring 56 goals. Represented every Spain youth team from Under to Under level, making his senior debut in at age He has scored eight goals in 99 appearances. He has also scored twice in eight matches for Catalonia. The world's best playmaker, he completed passes more than the next most prolific passer at last year's World Cup which Spain won.
His salary is 10 million EUR Midfielder who was born Xavier Hernandez i Creus, he became one of the most decorated players in Spain's history and was named World Soccer Player of the Year in He began his long career with FC Barcelona in and made his first of over appearances for the Spanish national team in Nuria Cunillera on July 13, and he has a daughter named Asia.
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