{"id":299648,"date":"2025-11-18T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299648\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:06:07","slug":"joan-laporta-responds-to-xavis-decision-to-back-victor-font-in-barcelonas-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299648\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Laporta responds to Xavi\u2019s decision to back Victor Font in Barcelona\u2019s presidential elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona president Joan Laporta says he\u2019s not surprised to see former boss Xavi backing Victor Font ahead of the club\u2019s next presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI wasn\u2019t surprised that Xavi was there and I thought he was free to do whatever he wants. I\u2019m not surprised because in the past he had a relationship with Victor Font,\u201d he told RAC1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAll Bar\u00e7a fans can do what they think is appropriate. We\u2019re not in the middle of an election campaign yet, so I won\u2019t comment on everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWhen I said \u2018mestretites\u2019 (know-it-alls), I didn\u2019t specify names or positions. It was a warning to all those who see Barcelona solely as a business, because those who see it that way have the concept of a limited company in mind. If he felt targeted, there must be a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Laporta has not yet set a date for the elections but says he will soon. He added: \u201cWe have not yet decided on the date of the elections but they will be between March 15 and June 15. We will decide as soon as possible and we hope that they hinder the team as little as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona president Joan Laporta says he\u2019s not surprised to see former boss Xavi backing Victor Font ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1480,1481,403,99],"class_list":["post-299648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}