Xavi: "Johan Cruyff has been the most influential in recent football history"

Xavi Hernández is a faithful admirer and follower of the football that implemented Johan Cruyff​ since it arrived to the FC Barcelona. The ex midfield player of Terrassa and current trainer of the To the Sadd has grown with this style and has turned into one of the men that has to follow the legacy of the Dutch. The Catalan already left clear in his period like Barcelona player how thought and how saw the football and as technical all this is confirming .

In a recent interview, the ex international Spanish ensured that the Dutch has been the most notable figure of the recent history of the football. "For me, Johan has meant the most influential person of the recent history of the football. It has been the key person in all the successes in the last 20-25 years in the Barça and in the selection", confirmed in Instagram, remembering the stage of the legendary ex footballer and ex trainer.

It is necessary to remember that Cruyff belongs to the selecto club of player that have marked a period in the history of the deport king so much in the terrain of game as in the bench. Although there are a lot of ex footballers that have attained to be important in both cases, very few have left so much footprint like him. The legend of Ámsterdam no only dominated in the field, but it changed the form to understand the football from the benches and when doing it changed the history of one of the best clubs of the world, the Barça.

Xavi has very clear that the group barcelonista and that even the Spanish selection of football champions of the world and of Europe are what are thanks to the own Johan. The 'oranje' landed in Barcelona and established a model of game that has survived with the years and that has triumphed. "It came here to Barcelona like trainer and changed a philosophy of game. It imposed a very marked system that practises until nowadays. The Barça and the selection have nourished of the philosophy of Cruyff", affirmed.

By all this, the ex mediocampista barcelonista feels very proud to form part of the Foundation Cruyff. Xavi forms part of his Board of Trustees since it created the Cruyff Court in Terrassa in 2014 and never arrepentirá of this. "Be related with the name Cruyff for me already is an absolute honour and form part of the family Cruyff, after the Cruyff Court in Terrassa, is a magnificent honour and a pride tremendo", signalled.

Xavi, called to be followed the legacy of Cruyff in the Barça

The ex '6' of the Barcelona is called to collect the witness of Pep Guardiola and of Cruyff in the team blaugrana. The one of Santpedor that, by the way, to his time took the witness of Johan when it seated in the bench culé. The Dutch has marked to several generations of footballers and therefore many trust that Xavi follow with this legacy. The opportunity could arrive him to the ex midfield player in 2021 with the elections of the Barça.