{"id":468709,"date":"2023-11-08T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468709"},"modified":"2023-11-08T13:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:06:54","slug":"barca-support-xavi-amid-calls-for-head-coach-change","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/barca-support-xavi-amid-calls-for-head-coach-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Barca support Xavi amid calls for head coach change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have &#8220;total&#8221; faith in Xavi Hernandez, and his current job is not in jeopardy, a team source shared with the media, despite the poor form recently both in results and in performances on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona lost to Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 in the Champions League yesterday and won with a lot of luck their match during the weekend against Real Sociedad 1-0 after Ronald Ara\u00fajo netted in the extra time as almost 2 weeks ago, the Catalan club lost El Classico 2-1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Barcelona have &#8220;total&#8221; faith in Xavi as coach, a club source told ESPN, despite their dip in form and recent results.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said questions about his future were &#8220;out of place&#8221; given his track record and argued his long-term project shouldn&#8217;t be questioned due to poor form. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qN3TTSWs6Z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qN3TTSWs6Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1722275298446643265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, discussions about firing the manager are not held, and the position of Xavi as boss of Barcelona is considered without an alternative soon. Barca bosses think of it as a long-term project, and the recent results are part of the process, so they can\u2019t influence their decisions or trust in the side\u2019s legend such as Xavi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You must only dismiss the head coach when you don&#8217;t see solutions,&#8221; former Barca defender Pique shared today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have &#8220;total&#8221; faith in Xavi Hernandez, and his current job is not in jeopardy, a team source shared with the media, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":468710,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,17969,19630],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17560,19631,508],"acf":{"announce":"The Catalan side has faith in its current boss.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468713,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468709\/revisions\/468713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468709"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468709"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}