Spain’s 2010 World Cup match-winner held a UEFA A Licence when accepting the position in Dubai and is preparing to complete his top-level coaching qualifications this October. Asked whether the new role has truly won him over, Iniesta continued: “Yes. I already felt that – not a need, but that inner voice saying: ‘I want this, and I want to train for this.’<\/p>\n
“I felt it during the process even before I began coaching. Now, it’s still there and keeps motivating me to push forward. In October, I have to begin the final step left for me, which is the UEFA Pro licence, and then I will have completed the coaching pathway.”<\/p>\n
Addressing the inevitable question about a potential return to Camp Nou to manage Barcelona in the future, the veteran playmaker added: “It would be nice, but it’s not something I can… Look, I wanted to be a footballer. When I was a kid, I didn’t say, ‘I want to be a manager.’ I said I wanted to be a professional footballer, play for Barca, and succeed in the first team.<\/p>\n
“That was crystal clear in my mind; those targets were non-negotiable. Now it has been a different journey, and time will tell, but obviously I am enjoying this beginning as an aspiring manager.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain’s 2010 World Cup match-winner held a UEFA A Licence when accepting the position in Dubai and is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[270659,1998,270657,85,46,18617,105],"class_list":["post-637043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-a-iniesta","tag-barcelona","tag-gulf-united","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-laliga","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}