{"id":640162,"date":"2024-05-25T12:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=640162"},"modified":"2024-05-25T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:28:39","slug":"barcelona-xavi-hansi-flick-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/05\/25\/barcelona-xavi-hansi-flick-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Replace Xavi With \u2018Outstanding\u2019 Sextuple Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

As revealed by\u00a0<\/span>Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a>, Hansi Flick has\u00a0<\/span>been appointed<\/span>\u00a0as the new Barcelona manager. The Catalans have parted ways with Xavi Hernandez, ending his two-and-a-half-year stint as their manager.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barcelona Appoint Hansi Flick as New Manager<\/span><\/h2>\n

A Season-Long Saga Ends With Hansi Flick Arriving<\/span><\/h3>\n

Xavi\u00a0<\/span>announced<\/span><\/a>\u00a0his decision to leave Barcelona after a heavy defeat against Villarreal in late January. In a post-match press conference, he vowed to walk away from the \u201ccruel and unpleasant\u201d job at the end of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, a string of brilliant results toward the end of the campaign seemingly changed the club\u2019s stance regarding Xavi\u2019s sacking. Last month, club president Joan Laporta\u00a0<\/span>admitted<\/span><\/a>\u00a0he \u201cabsolutely\u201d wanted the manager to stay beyond this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reports about Barcelona\u2019s search for a new manager cooled down, but a controversial press conference reportedly convinced Laporta to change his mind about Xavi\u2019s future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of his side\u2019s match against Almeria earlier this month, Xavi\u00a0<\/span>admitted<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Barcelona\u2019s current financial situation makes it difficult\u00a0<\/span>for them<\/span>\u00a0to compete against Real Madrid and other elite sides in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The comments were reportedly \u201c<\/span>upsetting<\/span><\/a>\u201d to Laporta, who has been\u00a0<\/span>under pressure<\/span>\u00a0to decide on Xavi\u2019s future before the summer transfer window opens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flick Takes Charge<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Catalan giants will now look forward to a new chapter with the \u201c<\/span>outstanding<\/span><\/a>\u201d German manager\u00a0<\/span>at the helm<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Flick has been out of work since leaving the German national team after the 2022 World Cup. The 59-year-old manager, who led Bayern Munich to a historic \u201c<\/span>sextuple<\/span><\/a>\u201d in 2020, will be eager to bring stability back to a Barcelona team that has had plenty of problems on and off the pitch in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As revealed by\u00a0Fabrizio Romano, Hansi Flick has\u00a0been appointed\u00a0as the new Barcelona manager. The Catalans have parted ways with Xavi Hernandez, ending his two-and-a-half-year stint as their manager. Barcelona Appoint Hansi Flick as New Manager A Season-Long Saga Ends With Hansi Flick Arriving Xavi\u00a0announced\u00a0his decision to leave Barcelona after a heavy defeat against Villarreal in late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5073,"featured_media":640213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,6,7188,28],"tags":[4335,2803],"class_list":["post-640162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-hansi-flick","tag-xavi"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}