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To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.
Xavi
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Xavi
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 25
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Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.
Xavi
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
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Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best.
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The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games he's the best. There is no comparison in my view he's the world number one and by a margin.
Xavi
I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barça - and for everyone in football.
Xavi
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say.
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I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.
Xavi
I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look and, above all, I open up the pitch...The one who has the ball, is the master of the game...Thats the school of Joan Vilà, of Albert Benaiges, of Johan Cruijff, of Pep Guardiola
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In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.
Xavi
Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
Xavi
I would loved to have played with Scholes. He plays the game the way it should be played and at his peak he was the best midfield player in the world.
Xavi
In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left it would have been to England.
Xavi
Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.
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I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.
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The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best.
Xavi
Iniesta is easily Spain's most complete player. He has everything.
Xavi
Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.
Xavi
There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.
Xavi
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.
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