Guillermo and Xavi they have known each other very well since their joint tenure in Al Sadd.
His former middle Olympic was asked to comment on the assumption of technical leadership of Barcelona by the 41-year-old Spanish coach, who replaced Ronald Koeman on the bench of “Blaugrana”.
The 30-year-old Brazilian referred to contacts that he had in 2020 with Xavi, when he was still playing with the “red and white” jersey, and in the attempt of the Spaniard to convince him to play with Al Sadd.
As Guillermo pointed out, at first he thought someone he is joking, while then revealed how we trembled when she first spoke to him on the phone!
“I was playing for Olympiakos. We had just played against Wolves in England for the Europa League. When I opened my cell phone in Athens, I had received a message from a Spanish number. It did not have a photo of a face, it was a strange image, which I did not understand exactly what it was. He then sent me an audio on WhatsApp. I heard it and he was a guy who said he was Xavi and that he wanted to talk to me.
At that moment I thought it was a hoax. I honestly thought someone was kidding me because he didn’t have a picture on the phone. Then I called Ruben Semedo, who had played in Spain and knows the language.
I said to him: “Dude, listen to this audio, please. “See if I understand correctly and if it really is Xavi.” He heard it and told me it was Xavi. I answered the message and he immediately asked me to call him. He told me that he had been watching me since I played for Deportivo La Coruna and that he had planned an interesting project for Al Sadd. He explained to me that my features would help him in the way he wanted to play.
I did not think about it a second time. I immediately accepted his invitation. I trembled when I spoke to him. I admired Xavi when he was a player and I would have the opportunity to coach me. It was incredible. “
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