I am going to put my life into this job for this to work: Xavi on Barcelon coaching tenure

Xavi has inherited a Barcelona team that is struggling to adjust to life after Lionel Messi and is in ninth place in the Spanish league.

For midfielder-turned-coach Xavi Hernandez, the trick to getting Barcelona back on the winning path is not signing better players or the tactical tweaks he is sure to make. The key for Xavi is the old-school values that he grew up with as a youth at the La Masia training academy.

I am going to put my life into this job for this to work, Xavi said Friday, a day before his Barcelona coaching debut in a derby against Espanyol at Camp Nou. I am going to transmit to my players that we are Barca and that means we have to give more than just 100% every minute, every second so that this can work. We owe a lot to so many people, and we can’t let them down, at least not in our values of showing the right attitude, making an effort and accepting sacrifice.