3 Reasons Why Xavi Is No Good

Posted by Borris Becker on Jan 14, 2012 in Real Madrid Players | 4 comments

Please try to read the title of this post in context. Xavi is a good player, what I mean by the title is that he is not as good as FIFA (aka Barcelona’s eternal friend) rank or think him to be. Continuing from my Ballon Dor Joke post, I noticed that Xavi has been ranked amongst the top 5 players in the world for the past 4 or 5 years now and I am bemused by that. Xavi is a simple Barcelona player who has been at the club for many years and is now a senior in the Barcelona dressing room. He is so old that he has even played with Guardiola, the guy who coaches Barcelona now. Lets cut to the chase, here are the 3 reasons why I think Xavi is so overrated.

1. Exactly why has he been awarded the 2nd position two times and other top positions for the past half a decade or so, is a mystery to me. One reason could be that he plays for Barcelona, who in turn play for UEFA as UNICEF is the sponsor on Barcelona jerseys for which Barcelona plays 1 million euros to UNICEF every year out of their own pockets. The only thing Xavi is good at is horizontal passing and turning. He has a good sense of the game and nice ball control, but that is so common amongst player who play in his position. Prime example is Xabi of Real Madrid, but his passing range is way more than of Xavi. All Xavi does is, he takes the ball, looks up and if he sees a defender coming he turns around 360 like a pussy cat and passes to his defenders or his goalkeeper, something which Makalele was a master of, why did he not get any nominations for being the best player in the world? I don’t know.
2. Second reason is that he is not even a complete player for his position. He does not have any pace, no shooting skills and doesn’t know how to dribble past players. He is as safe a player as you would see in world football. Rarely takes any risks, relies on the easy horizontal passing and backward passing along with some luck (some of which he got against Real Madrid in the last El Clasico). You must be wondering, why other players in his position do not do the same? That is because they are more ambitious than Xavi. They want to make more difficult passes and hence miss more often and they want to take on players and hence lose possession more often, Xavi is more f a Buddha than a football players as he has exercised immense self control throughout his career by not going for more and keeping true to his identity which is to pass backwards and horizontally, playing it as safe as possible.
3. Kaka and Xabi are more complete players than him for his position but they are not even in the top 10 I think which is ridiculous. Xavi cannot even make a long ball and like Messi relies on his perfect teammates to finish off a single good pass from him amongst the tens he makes in a game.

In short, it is insane to even think that Xavi can be better than Kaka or Alonso and it is only because he plays for Barcelona (who also win most of the trophies) and his immense self control of not trying for more is he able to distinguish himself in the eyes of FIFA, who ranks the best players in the world.

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