Xavi backs Pep Guardiola to succeed at Man Metropolis
REUTERS | 2016-05-25 eleven:forty six:15.zero
A file photograph of then Barcelona FC head coach Josep Guardiola (L) wanting on as midfielder Xavi Hernandez streches throughout a coaching session.
Picture by: AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS
Former Barcelona and Spain midfielder Xavi has backed incoming Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola to go away his mark on the Premier League after taking up from the departing Manuel Pellegrini on July 1.
Guardiola gained 21 trophies in his time answerable for Barcelona and Bayern Munich and has been employed by Metropolis’s house owners within the hope that he can lead the staff to a primary Champions League title.
Metropolis reached the semi-last of Europe’s elite membership competitors for the primary time this season however have been knocked out of the event by 10-time winners Actual Madrid.
“It is a massive alternative for him at Manchester Metropolis. I feel he’ll change the face of English soccer,” Xavi, who joined Qatari membership Al Sadd in Might final yr, informed the web site for Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Supply & Legacy (www.sc.qa).
“If there’s anybody able to altering that mentality, it’s Guardiola… He’s doubtless among the best coaches on the planet in the intervening time.”
Guardiola achieved a double in his last season in Germany, with Bayern profitable the Bundesliga and beating Borussia Dortmund on penalties to win the German Cup in his final recreation in cost.