The data that reaffirms how complicated it is to be the coach of FC Barcelona

Assume the technical direction of the FC Barcelona along the years has showed to be an extremely complicated task, especially in the last times. The trainers that have tried to manage the sportive project culé have confronted to numerous obstacles, in particular with some fans and some surroundings that constantly demand no only heave trophies, but they achieve deploying an attractive and faithful football to the called 'DNA Barça', a style of game that is not easy to retort.

Likewise, in the last years has added the complexity that, in spite of being one of the biggest clubs of Spain and of the world, the trainers that assume the bench have the certainty that his projects of incorporation of players can see affected by the economic situation of the club, that prevents them make big investments to incorporate players of first level and reinforce the areas of the field that require it. In his place, have to resort to the quarry, that although it is a big mine of talents, no always can offer all the necessary solutions to what requires the first team.

Xavi Hernández, the last victim of the Barcelona bench

The last victim of the demanding position of trainer of the FC Barcelona has been at all less than Xavi Hernández, a legend of the club like player, that showed his wish and love for directing to the Barcelonan picture when putting of his own money to accelerate his arrival to the bench of the City Condal. Nevertheless, after two courses and half (142 meetings), the combined Catalan decided to precipitate his exit after a turbulent season in which the club went without winning any title.

It is necessary to stand out that the only cycle that has showed some stability and results in the last years was precisely the one of the egarense. Before his arrival, the bench of the Barça experienced a series of important changes, including a brief interinato of Sergi Barjuan (21/22) after the exit of Ronald Koeman, whose alone mandate lasted two periods (2020/21 and 2021/22), to his time sucediendo to a barren step of Quique Setién (2019/20).

To find a similar cycle in terms of durability to the of Xavi Hernández, have to trace us back to the era of Ernesto 'Txingurri' Valverde, the one who also directed to the club during two seasons and average (2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20). However, neither it attained to keep in the charge so much time like his predecessor, Luis Enrique, the one who was three campaigns behind the bench culé (2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17) and was one of the main artífices of the last big Barcelona cast avasallador, winner of nine titles.

Johan Cruyff, the only trainer of the FC Barcelona that has been able to keep more than a polish in the charge

These examples show clearly that in the FC Barcelona, without mattering the lineage of the trainer or the titles won, in front of the minor trip opts for putting end to the cycle and look for a replacement quickly. The periods of the technical directors last less than three seasons, what does extremely complicated the suitable construction of a sportive project in the middle of the adversity.

Even, this data goes back more evident when considering that the only trainer in the extensive history of the FC Barcelona that has surpassed the five seasons in the club was at all less than Johan Cruyff, responsible of big part of the style of game culé that know nowadays, and was at the top of the Barcelona picture during eight courses. Not even a historical of the club like Pep Guardiola attained to surpass the five campaigns, being only four, and Frank Rijkaard, another stood out formador of the combined Catalan, had exactly five courses. This leaves in clear that even being an important figure in the institution, the intensity to be technical director of the Barça, in addition to being desgastante, does not leave a lot of space to build sportive projects on a long-term basis.