It's not Marquez, Barcelona has its sights on Xavi Hernandez's successor
Many rumors have arisen about the successor and the Catalans already have an answer.
This weekend Barcelona fell again in the league, with a score of 5-3 at home against Villarreal, Xavi Hernández added one more failure to the season just a couple of hours after being eliminated from the Copa del Rey, The culés dropped to fourth position in the table and moved 11 points away from the leader Girona, which has one more game played.
Xavi announced at the end of the match against Villarreal that he will not continue being the team's coach for next season, a statement that opened a thread of rumors about the name of the next Blaugrana coach where Rafa Márquez, current coach of Barça Athletic, was even mentioned.
One of the main candidates in the mind of the Blaugrana president, Joan Laporta, is Hansi Flick, the German coach who is currently without a team. Before Xavi's arrival he was the candidate to take over the position, however, he decided not to take the position. after his time with his country's national team and Bayern Munich. “We know that Hansi Flick is a candidate, there was already a video call with President Joan Laporta in 2021, I wanted to convince him at that time, however, Flick canceled and then Xavi came,” published the German newspaper Blind.
Despite completing one of Germany's biggest failures in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where it was eliminated for the second consecutive time in the group stage with 4 units in Group E (first with Flick), the German coach achieved great triumphs directing to Bayern Munich where he achieved a hat trick.
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As an assistant to Joachim Löw he won the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, however, as a coach he achieved a Champions League, two German league titles, a German Cup, a Club World Cup and a European Super Cup, achieving the treble in the season. 2019-2020. Although there is still no confirmation of who will be Barcelona's next coach, people close to President Laporta have assured that he will once again try to convince the German coach to take over.
