Xavi Hernandez aims to revive Netherlands team and pledges a more dominating style
Xavi Hernandez signed a four-year contract and said he will restore the Oranje’s attacking identity after the team’s disappointing World Cup exit.
- On Tuesday, the Netherlands Soccer Federation officially presented Xavi Hernandez as head coach in Zeist, signing him to a four-year contract through the 2030 World Cup.
- Xavi replaces Ronald Koeman after the Netherlands' World Cup exit, having been the federation's third choice behind Pep Guardiola and Arne Slot, who opted for sabbatical and club football respectively.
- Describing the Netherlands as the 'university of football,' Xavi pledged to build a 'big family' emphasizing 'passion, ambition, desire' and abandoning the five-defender setup used by predecessors Louis van Gaal and Ronald Koeman.
- Xavi's tenure begins on September 24 in Amsterdam, when the Oranje face Germany in the Nations League under new coach Jurgen Klopp, a fellow management rookie in his first international role.
- Xavi becomes the first foreign manager to lead the Oranje in 48 years, inheriting a squad seeking its first major title since Euro 1988 and attempting to end a record of three World Cup final losses.
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Installed at Oranje's command, the Spanish football legend was expressed in front of the press this Tuesday.
The former player and coach of Barcelona Xavi Hernandez was officially presented as a new technical commissioner of the Dutch national team, with whom he signed a contract until 2030. (ANSA)
National coach Xavi Hernández has started with the Dutch national team. At his presentation, he appears imperturbable and ambitious. "It doesn't matter to me that I was the third choice."
'Here to win': Xavi vows to restore pride in Dutch football
"If we play good football... taking the initiative, dominating the game, playing in an offensive way... we will be closer to winning and to getting results," the 46-year-old former midfielder told reporters at his first news conference since being appointed. The Netherlands were disappointing at the most recent World Cup, topping their group without really convincing and then crashing out to Morocco on penalties in the last-32. "I remember when …
'Here to win': Xavi vows to restore pride to Dutch football
"If we play good football... taking the initiative, dominating the game, playing in an offensive way... we will be closer to winning and to getting results," the 46-year-old former midfielder told reporters at his first news conference since being appointed. The Netherlands were disappointing at the most recent World Cup, topping their group without really convincing and then crashing out to Morocco on penalties in the last-32. "I remember when …
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elcorreogallego.esXavi Hernández, one of the great idols of the 'month a club', is already the new recruiter of the Netherlands, the school, the marmita of Johan Cruyff, his teacher. This Tuesday, in Zeist, he has been presented as the man who will try to return the brilliance, fluidity, football to the selection 'oranje', three times runner-up of the world. By the way, the first one they called was Pep Guardiola, who said 'no'.
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