{"id":157612,"date":"2021-11-09T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=157612"},"modified":"2021-11-09T15:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:56:34","slug":"early-start-for-xavi-on-first-proper-day-of-training-as-barcelona-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=157612","title":{"rendered":"Early start for Xavi on first proper day of training as Barcelona boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Xavi arrived early on Tuesday to begin his first proper day of training as Barcelona boss, according to SPORT.<br \/>\nXavi, 41, has been lured back to Camp Nou on a contract until 2024 as replacement for Ronald Koeman. The beloved former midfielder had, previously, won 25 major trophies across 767 appearances from 1998-2015.<br \/>\nThe Catalan &#8211; faced with a squad severely depleted by international call-ups &#8211; started work just before 09:00 (GMT+1) at the out-of-town training ground. He\u00a0met with\u00a0Eric Garcia, Inaki Pena, Martin Braithwaite, Pedri, Ansu Fati , Nico Gonzalez, Sergi Roberto, Gerard Pique, Luuk de Jong, Riqui Puig, Oscar Mingueza, Samuel Umtiti, Sergino Dest and Neto, before the session began two hours later.<br \/>\nXavi&#8217;s opening fixture is November 20&#8217;s derby with Espanyol. Barca sit a distant ninth in the La Liga table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Xavi arrived early on Tuesday to begin his first proper day of training as Barcelona boss, according to SPORT.<br \/>\nXavi, 41, has been lured back to Camp Nou on a contract until 2024 as replacement for Ronald Koeman. The beloved former midfielder had, previously, won 25 major trophies across 767 appearances from 1998-2015.<br \/>\nThe Catalan \u2013 faced with a squad severely depleted by international call-ups \u2013 started work just before 09:00 (GMT+1) at the out-of-town training ground. He\u00a0met with\u00a0Eric Garcia, Inaki Pena, Martin Braithwaite, Pedri, Ansu Fati , Nico Gonzalez, Sergi Roberto, Gerard Pique, Luuk de Jong, Riqui Puig, Oscar Mingueza, Samuel Umtiti, Sergino Dest and Neto, before the session began two hours later.<br \/>\nXavi\u2019s opening fixture is November 20\u2019s derby with Espanyol. Barca sit a distant ninth in the La Liga table.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157613,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157612\/revisions\/157613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}