Xavi: The Clasico Masterpiece

Quite simply Messi is the Master!!

kaka is a striker who plays deep, he is not a midfielder, cant control the games tempo.

now i think xavi is an amazing player, the ability to turn and release the ball and release it perfectly to a on rushing player(usually on the spot they will running at) but i have always wondered how would he do at a team where speed wasnt everything, he can hit alot of his passes because he knows henry/messi/pedro/alves/iniesta are faster then alot of his opponents. if you can mark the faster forward players out of the game you nullify xavi.

xavi to me is the ultimate midfielder in terms of perfecting a position but iniesta is the future a do it all kind of midfielder.

If you were given one pick for an eleven player team (not first pick, just one of the eleven) who would you pick? Mine would be Xavi -- for everything, the assists yes, but possession, vision, passing accuracy/speed, dictating both pace and play, and being as cool under pressure as any player I know of. His game never changes, everyone else has to play him and he moves the ball so quickly that most can't.

wow..people comparing Xavi to Kaka?! Kaka clearly plays in a different position, is never given the task of slowing down a game from deep-lying role etc. etc. u can compare Xavi to Xabi Alonso though, or Pirlo (WC2006), or maybe even Xavi to the benchmark of all modern mid-fielders- Steven Gerrard! :)

06/07 Kaka was great and that's it. I never thought he was this spectacular player everyone suggested. He loves the counter attack and loves to push the ball ahead of him, clothes down his space and he's average. South Africa did that to him in the Confederation's Cup and he looked poor.

First of all, Xavi is so much better than Kaka. Second of all, Xavi is not underappreciated. Third of all, "masterful" is a bit exaggetory.

same fixture last year, he had 4 assists. He's the heart of this Barca team.

The two are apples and oranges, really. Different positions/games. I'm not sure "attacking midfielder" is "midfielder" anymore, either. (Quick, where's Jonathan Wilson?)

There's only one player in world football whose ceiling is as high as Kaka's, and it ain't Xavi. When he's on his game, Kaka is simply unstoppable. But Xavi is far, far more consistent and thus deserving of "best".

Madrid were marking the wrong guy!

Sorry, but "a knack for passing", carlos? That's like saying the Beatles had a knack for songwriting, or that Michelangelo had a knack for painting. And yes, he is better than an in-form Kaka. Dominates games. Wins for Barcelona and Spain. You build a team around Xavi.

Barcelona wins because is the best team of planet today. And have the best player too. Tactical analysis of Barcelona 4 x 1 Arsenal.

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Since this sport clearly belongs to him, maybe we should just rebrand the whole thing as Xaviball.

sid lowe recently wrote an article in the guardian in which he dumped praise on xavi, and the comments that followed dumped further praise on the midfield maestro. i realize that he is majestic player, a very exceptional midfielder with a knack for passing, but is he really the best midfielder in the world, is he lightyears better than an in form kaka for example?

THE most under-appreciated player of this generation