{"id":28877,"date":"2024-04-25T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/laliga-why-i-changed-my-mind-about-leaving-barcelona-xavi\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:00:19","slug":"laliga-why-i-changed-my-mind-about-leaving-barcelona-xavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/laliga-why-i-changed-my-mind-about-leaving-barcelona-xavi\/","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: Why I changed my mind about leaving Barcelona \u2013 Xavi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Barcelona manager, Xavi Hernandez, has opened up on why he decided to stay at the LaLiga club.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi announced in January that he will be quitting as head coach in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old said he would be walking away despite having a contract until 2025 at the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a dramatic u-turn on Wednesday, Xavi has decided to continue with Barca, after meeting with the club\u2019s president, Joan Laporta and other senior officials.<\/p>\n<p>The former Spain midfielder has now given reasons for his decision to remain at the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI changed my mind because I really felt total confidence from the president, from the board and the players too. This project isn\u2019t finished yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe, my staff, all together feel that we have strength to make important things together and continue this project,\u201d Xavi said.<\/p>\n<p>LaLiga: Why I changed my mind about leaving Barcelona \u2013 Xavi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona manager, Xavi Hernandez, has opened up on why he decided to stay at the LaLiga club. Xavi announced in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5606,2231,15,160,1872],"tags":[1875,2235,180,201,1874],"class_list":["post-28877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-laliga","category-news","category-sport","category-xavi","tag-barcelona","tag-laliga","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-xavi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}