Tito Vilanova convinced to Leo Messi of not to go of the Barcelona

This Thursday fulfilled five years of the demise of Tito Vilanova, the one who was assistant of Pep Guardiola in the most glorious period of the history of the FC Barcelona and the one who, as first trainer, won a League with more than 100 points added in a same season. Besides, when seeming, avoided that Leo Messi left .

They are not few the media that have taken out to the light that, in this period, Leo Messi posed abandon the FC Barcelona like consequence of the criticisms and of moments of sportive difficulties, when the Real Madrid defeated to the Barcelona in the Glass of Rey. The Manchester City appeared like candidate number one to carry it.

Jordi Roura, second trainer of Tito Vilanova in his stage like main technician of the FC Barcelona, conceded an interview for the program 'Without Grantings' of Radio Kanal Barcelona, in which it explained that Tito, six days before his demise, held a conversation with Leo Messi that would have avoided that the Argentinian left .

According to Roura, since, Messi changed of idea. "It was a stage in which Tito was in some delicate moments and is truth that in that period Read did not have clear his continuity. They gathered and although I was not, know that they were quite a lot of hours speaking. From here, Leo changed his approach and saw something that did not see so clear. I do not know what would speak, but Leo decided to remain here and expect that it was by a lot of years", explained.

Hard period for the FC Barcelona

Roura Explained that the season in which Tito was the first trainer was especially hard by his relapse. "It was a season very very very hard, a season in which it saw an unpublished situation that expect that it do not repeat more, in which confluyeron a lot of things. On the one hand the professional pressure that has a club like the Barcelona, that has to follow competing, and on the other hand a very hard situation that happened him to our trainer", commented.

However, the players took out strengths of flaqueza and achieved to carry out the championship of League, achieving win with more than 100 points in spite of the illness of Tito. "What achieved was thanks to the enormous commitment and the enormous capacity of work of the footballers. In another club had been much more difficult to achieve", concluded Roura.