This Friday, the party of the qualifying for Euro 2012 will face the Spanish team to the Czech Granada, Xavi Hernandez is going to be a hundred caps for La Roja. So far only Andoni Zubizarreta (126), Iker Casillas (117 and counting) and Raul Gonzalez (102) have overcome a hundred games for the national team, which gives added value to the record set by the de Terrassa.
Naturally, these days Xavi is getting all kinds of tributes and congratulations, including among them a nice video sponsored by Adidas , the brand saw both the player and to Spain. Football Notes want to pay the tribute he deserves a few moments remembering his career as a major international and analyzing how his career has changed since Euro 2008.
Before coming to the senior team, Xavi was an important part of a generation that achieved great success in the lower grades. In 1999 he was part of the U20 selection was proclaimed world champion in the World Youth Cup held in Nigeria (4-0 to Japan in the final). A year later participated in the Sydney Olympics, where the national team reached the final (2-3 against Cameroon), and hanging over the Olympic silver medal. A few months after coach Jose Antonio Camacho for the first time he called the Absolute, made his debut on November 15, 2000 against the Netherlands (1-2).
As happened at the club, the selection was not reached and kiss the saint. A Xavi took a long time start to come into the starting lineup of the selection. In the 2002 World Baraja, Albelda and Valeron were ahead of him and in the quarter where Spain was eliminated only played in overtime. In the Euro 2004 Albelda and Xabi Alonso were the starters in the game that sent us to house Portugal. So it was not until the World Cup when Xavi finally became the playmaker of La Roja.
Two years later, Luis Aragones addressed the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland after doing a clean in the wardrobe of choice and with a clear objective: to break radically with historic Spanish style known as La Furia, and introduce a new style based and focused on the generation of players, gamers who both admired the Hortaleza. Aragonés given command of Xavi and eight became the quarterback who led a combo that was proclaimed champion of Europe and became the most admired Selection in recent times.
Euro 2008 Xavi clinched the altar they deserve: the UEFA named him Player of the Championship, highlighting it as the chief representative of the style crowned Spain. But more important than the decision by UEFA was received global recognition, for many people from all over the world went from being "a player, yes, moving the ball well and that" to be admired unanimously by all the football fans planet. Two years later, in the World Cup, in a much more difficult and demanding than in 2008, Xavi again establish itself as the beacon that lit the way of a selection, finally, was exalted as World Champion. And now is most often hear foreigners, be they fans, players, coaches and journalists, saying that his team lacked a xavi. What's bigger than that?
For this signature is no doubt that Xavi Hernandez is the most important player in Spanish football history. I'm not saying the best, which is a matter of taste and therefore subject to a thousand threads, but speak of the importance. And, frankly, I think the Red had won the Euro and World No Xavi, at least not well, not so well, not so nice, not in an admirable .... This is the list of winners of Euro 2008 Xavi from:
Collective Awards
- Spain: 2 League, 1 Cup, 3 Super Cups
- International: UEFA Champions League, European Super Cup, Club World
- Selection: World Champion South Africa 200 / ili>
Individual Awards
- Best Player of Euro 2008 (and, therefore, a member of Dream Team)
- Best game maker in the world by IFFHS: 2008, 2009, 2010
- Cup Best XI: 2008, 2009, 2010
- MVP of the finals of the UEFA Champions League 2008-09
- Best midfielder in the year of the UEFA Champions League 2008-09
- Bronze Ball FIFA Club World Cup 2009
- Bronze Ball 2009
- Third place FIFA World Player 2009
- Dream Team World Cup: 2010
- World Soccer Award: Best player in the world 2010
- Bronze Ball 2010
Before the Euro 2008 and was champion and Champions League, but at the individual level only had a couple of Don Ball Award (Newcomer 1998/99 and played 2004/05). That kid who did not serve that was too short, which was slow, it would not reach the first team, which then could not play with Guardiola and it was not worth Selection ... today is no room for doubt, the builder best game in the world and if I hurry, when finished his career possibly talk about him as the best organizer of all time.
In NDF | Xavi Hernandez, midfielder Iberian
In NDF | Xavi, Player of the Euro 2008
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