The FC Barcelona coach cannot leave with his team for the United States. On the side of Barça, we want to quickly solve this administrative problem.
The Barcelona delegation leaves this Saturday for the United States, but in the group no trace of Xavi, the coach of the Catalan club. To explain this absence, FC Barcelona mentioned “ administrative reasons », and according to AS this is due to the last years of his footballing and coaching career, when he was under contract with the Qatari club of Al Sadd. Indeed, the United States simply refused a visa to Xavi, which purely and simply prohibits him from entering the United States. Reason for this refusal, the three stays that the former player and coach has made in Iran during the past five years. Under the jersey and on the bench of Al Sadd, Xavi participated three times in Champions League matches in the Asian zone in Iran, and that was enough to stop obtaining his visa.
Xavi too often in Iran, the United States wants to know more
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Because even if he returned to Barcelona, the coach had to officially justify the reasons for his visit to a country still considered an enemy of the United States. And that was not done, the club contenting itself with a simple visa application, without realizing the problem that was quickly going to appear. A blunder that Barça wants to correct this weekend, the club of Joan Laporta hoping that then the North American authorities will quickly give the green light to the Spanish technician so that he joins his players in Miami, and this if possible on Monday . In the meantime, the Barcelona sports press specifies that Sergio Alegre and Oscar Hernandez, Xavi’s two assistants will provide training.
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