http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 star’s father came out in the open and admitted that the rivalry between La Blaugrana and Los Blancos led to difficult moments for the Spanish team.
Barcelona and Real Madrid share one of the fiercest rivalries in the history of football. Both the teams are direct rivals of each other in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Franco-c14050, both the teams have been trying to get the best out of each other.
Real Madrid recently won the Spanish La Liga title, which they snatched away from Barcelona after the Catalan giants dominated Spain for three consecutive seasons.
Jose Mourinho took charge of Los Blancos two seasons ago and since then the rivalry between these two teams has become even more intense. The players have started fighting on the pitch and an example can be seen from how http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Villa-c10629 and Mesut Ozil did not
only exchange a few words, but in fact they were involved in a physical brawl.
Therefore, there is no doubt that when players of both these teams had to come together for the Spanish national side during the Euro 2012, there were problems for the coach, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vicente-c36001 Del Bosque.
The Spanish coach definitely had to go through a lot since both the parties were not coming on common ground and recently Xavi Hernandez’s father revealed how it was all possible not only because of Del Bosque but also because of Xavi and Casillas, as both
these players are good friends with each other.
Xavi’s father believes that even though his son and Casillas play for two rival clubs, they do not let the rivalry come between their friendship and that is the reason why the Spanish national team respects these two players and that is why these two have
a great role to play in Spain’s triumph in the Euro 2012.
While speaking about these two players and both the teams, Xavi’s father said:
“If it weren’t for Xavi, Casillas and Vicente del Bosque, Spain would not have come this far. The Clasicos led to difficult moments. Relationships between players who used to be friends were about to go sour.
“There were issues with (Alvaro) Arbeloa, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergio-Ramos-c33096 among others. The behaviour of some players wasn’t appropriate. Luckily Iker and Xavi then got involved.”
Xavi and Casillas helped Spain win the European championship for second time in succession.
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