{"id":852965,"date":"2026-09-19T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:40:10","slug":"reminds-me-of-pedri-xavi-espart-hailed-by-spain-boss-after-impressive-form-for-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852965\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reminds me of Pedri\u2019 \u2013 Xavi Espart hailed by Spain boss after impressive form for Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI like seeing teams betting on him. Of course, I\u2019m amazed when I see Under-21 players performing at that level. Xavi is a former Under-19 champion,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHis best quality is his excellent understanding of the game, space, and timing. And he can do it from any position. He\u2019s decisive as a central midfielder and as a full-back. He\u2019s very intelligent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s always one step ahead. In some ways, he reminds me of Pedri because of his understanding of the game. It seems like time moves differently for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI like seeing teams betting on him. Of course, I\u2019m amazed when I see Under-21 players performing at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[125386,403,99],"class_list":["post-852965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-internationals","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852965","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=852965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}