Our Head Coach, Thomas Frank, said: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased we have brought Xavi in – he is a great addition to the squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is still young, however he already has good experience and, over the past few years, has played a lot of games at the top level.<\/p>\n
\u201cXavi has proven his ability to get goals and assists, both from the number 10 position and left-wing. He also has a great eye for his team-mates in terms of unlocking defences, and I know he will come in and be part of a good team that is already working hard together.\u201d<\/p>\n
A young but proven attacking midfielder who can operate centrally or on the wing, Xavi\u2019s early footballing days were spent with Spanish side Club Deportivo Thader before he continued his development in the illustrious academies of FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n
Making his first professional appearance at the latter, stepping off the bench away at SM Caen at the age of just 17-years-old in a French Cup tie, it was in Paris where he first tasted silverware, helping Les Parisiens to both the French Cup and the Ligue 1 title in his first two seasons in men\u2019s football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Head Coach, Thomas Frank, said: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased we have brought Xavi in – he is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-101176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}