Posted on November 17, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. by Th.B.
FC Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez would have played a key role in Dani Alves' return to Barça. At least that is what President Joan Laporta assured on Wednesday.
Since his contract with Sao Paulo was terminated last September, Dani Alves was without a club. However, that all changed last Friday. Indeed, after multiple appeals from the foot of the Brazilian right-back in the press, FC Barcelona has formalized the return of Dani Alves within the club culé. Something the main interested party has been waiting for almost five years as he announced on his Instagram account in the wake of the announcement. And Xavi Hernandez , coach of FC Barcelona since the beginning of November, gave his approval for this operation to materialize.
“Xavi told me that Dani is one of those people I need in the team and that's what made us decide”
“In handling this incorporation, apart from what we talked with Dani, when I met Xavi I told him that Dani was ready to help and Xavi told me that Dani is one of those people that I need in the team and that's what decided us. I had forgotten Xavi and wanted to say it ”. confided Joan Laporta during the press conference presenting Dani Alves on Wednesday and in reported comments by Mundo Deportivo.