🎙️| Ivan Rakitić (ex-Barça) told @JijantesFC on Xavi’s decision to leave.
🗣️ “It's his decision, but there is no person in general who can understand Barça more or better than Xavi. He caught the team at a very delicate moment, with many changes, with a not easy context that does not help either the club or the coach. And Xavi has been able to move it forward.”
🗣️ “It's his decision, but there is no person in general who can understand Barça more or better than Xavi. He caught the team at a very delicate moment, with many changes, with a not easy context that does not help either the club or the coach. And Xavi has been able to move it forward.”
🎙️| Rakitić on the current Barça.
🗣️ “Barça is unique, special. There is a football intelligence, which is not knowing how to add or subtract. It's knowing how to understand it, and once you get it, there's no better place to enjoy it.”
🗣️ “Barça is unique, special. There is a football intelligence, which is not knowing how to add or subtract. It's knowing how to understand it, and once you get it, there's no better place to enjoy it.”
🎙️| Rakitić continues..
🗣️ “Ter Stegen is f*cking crazy. He's crazy, he's at an incredible level. Not only for the shots he stops. We also all miss Gavi, seeing him with Pedri, with the magic of Frenkie and Gündoğan... That young players keep coming in, that they are learning. I wish my friend Xavi all the best, I hope it goes great. I will always follow Barça and wish him the best.”
🗣️ “Ter Stegen is f*cking crazy. He's crazy, he's at an incredible level. Not only for the shots he stops. We also all miss Gavi, seeing him with Pedri, with the magic of Frenkie and Gündoğan... That young players keep coming in, that they are learning. I wish my friend Xavi all the best, I hope it goes great. I will always follow Barça and wish him the best.”
🎙️| Rakitić on the youngsters.
🗣️ “Cubarsí, like everyone else who is entering and playing important games. I'm not surprised that he is part of the national team. In football there are no ages for being ready or not. But I do think you don't have to put in their head that they have to be MVP in every game or stop this player or another. Let them enjoy, let them learn, let them grow, let them go forward. That is what the coach Xavi is for, who understands better than anyone what is best for them.”
🗣️ “Cubarsí, like everyone else who is entering and playing important games. I'm not surprised that he is part of the national team. In football there are no ages for being ready or not. But I do think you don't have to put in their head that they have to be MVP in every game or stop this player or another. Let them enjoy, let them learn, let them grow, let them go forward. That is what the coach Xavi is for, who understands better than anyone what is best for them.”
🎙️| Rakitić on Barça’s win in the first leg vs PSG.
🗣️ “It was a blow from Barça. We were all left with our mouths open and wanting more, not only for the result, but for the way of competing and how we played the game. I hope it is the first step of everything that will come, it was a very important victory.”
🗣️ “It was a blow from Barça. We were all left with our mouths open and wanting more, not only for the result, but for the way of competing and how we played the game. I hope it is the first step of everything that will come, it was a very important victory.”
🎙️| Rakitić on the 6-1 vs PSG in 2017.
🗣️ “Those moments, as everything happens very quickly, you remember them after a while. Everyone talks about the trophies you won, but it's those games that really stay in the memory. If there was a team capable of doing it, it was us. It was crazy during the day, one of the biggest games in the history of the Champions League.”
🗣️ “Those moments, as everything happens very quickly, you remember them after a while. Everyone talks about the trophies you won, but it's those games that really stay in the memory. If there was a team capable of doing it, it was us. It was crazy during the day, one of the biggest games in the history of the Champions League.”
🎙️| Rakitić on what followed after the 6-1.
🗣️ “It's not surprising what happened to us afterwards. We felt too superior. We gave away games and it cost us trophies. Now, years later, we’d all like to put it back and I'm sure we would have two or three more Champions Leagues.”
🗣️ “It's not surprising what happened to us afterwards. We felt too superior. We gave away games and it cost us trophies. Now, years later, we’d all like to put it back and I'm sure we would have two or three more Champions Leagues.”
🎙️| Rakitić continues..
🗣️ “The worst was the one in Rome, because we gave it away. Without taking away the merits of the rival and congratulating them for the game they played, but we gave it away. When you're not really involved, it can happen to you. And it was our fault.”
🗣️ “The worst was the one in Rome, because we gave it away. Without taking away the merits of the rival and congratulating them for the game they played, but we gave it away. When you're not really involved, it can happen to you. And it was our fault.”
🎙️| Rakitić continues..
🗣️ “We would like to do things differently if we could go back in time. Without making changes but being really involved always. Because you cannot press the repeat button. Football is the now. I think we did a lot of spectacular things but I am sorry because I think we were one of the best generations and we could have gotten a lot more out of it.”
🗣️ “We would like to do things differently if we could go back in time. Without making changes but being really involved always. Because you cannot press the repeat button. Football is the now. I think we did a lot of spectacular things but I am sorry because I think we were one of the best generations and we could have gotten a lot more out of it.”
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