Xavi Hernandez
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UEFA Nations League
Manager’s Blueprint: What Xavi Brings to the Netherlands
Xavi Hernández’s first competitive Netherlands window opens at home against Germany on 24 September, then stacks Serbia, Greece and Serbia again inside ten dense Nations League days. Across Al Sadd and a Barcelona spell that delivered a La Liga title, he coached sides that treated the ball as territory and…
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Soccer
International Break Preview: Klopp, Xavi and Zidane all start their new eras
Club football will be going quiet for sixteen days, which sounds like a punishment but this is actually the most interesting international break in years. FIFA has merged the old September and October breaks into a single block running from 21 September to 6 October, so national teams play up…
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Soccer
Top Ten Greatest La Liga Midfielders of All Time
From Catalan metronomes to Madrid magicians, La Liga has long been the home of football’s finest minds. In a league where midfielders are expected to paint and to grind, the centre of the pitch has produced legends who control not only possession but also tempo, tone and theatre. Here are…
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