As a fan of Xavi Hanandes' work, seeing him lead the club of his dreams as a coach when everything looked gloomy was both nostalgic and made much difference.
For the record, Xavi was coaching Al Sadd fc with a clause in his contract.
He told them he could terminate the contract only if the club of his dreams came calling.
This was way before Barca was in her financial crisis and needed a coach like him. No one ever gave a rookie coach the chance to coach the Barca first team.
Still, as fate would have it Barcelona had tried all her options, lost the greatest footballer in the club's history Leo, and had not won the league title in half a decade.
He was the only one with the La Massia (FC Barcelona Football Academy) DNA who was more in tune with the changes in the new workplace.
look at it like ACCENTURE deciding to recruit her former staff to lead her as a country director.
Xavi was passionate about the club and the work sometimes you wondered if he was part of the players because even the referees shared cards meant for players with their coach he wasn't discriminatory he took the red and yellow cards respectively and in two years won some hearts gave back hope and made mistakes like every rookie would make.
There is a science to every role more importantly there are two types of coaches the one that has been sacked and the one that would be sacked.
More importantly, he gets the experience to come back to his workplace to help the next generation and tell them how his team won six titles in a season and what it was to wear the Baca badge in his time and his team did listen.
There were stories of how the mentality had a good shift, he set great standards and when he couldn't meet his standards xavi told the team he would resign at the end of the season because the team was more important than the individual, and if he couldn't do the goal he was set to not be in the way of the club.
This was the best part of his last days as a Barcelona coach because the team picked up and lost fewer matches.
The club asked him to change his decision to leave because they still needed him and principled Xavi changed his mind for the love of his childhood club ( wrong move).
Still, it was love for the Barca badge, he was in a love relationship already with Barca and he saw it as service.
Then something happened that could be a conversation for another day, Barca holds a press conference, and like a vocal personality he criticizes his team and himself which is expected but saying the obvious about Barcelona's future triggers the club and the same club decides to relieve him of his job.
You see We are all like Xavi at work sometimes you get promotions contracts signed you must remember there were several negotiations done behind the scenes you might not be aware of.
For Xavi, it was obvious while he was given the nod to continue his job some decision-makers who had their bais found his obvious press conference one to ask the management to consider her decision.
In a dramatic turn, Xavi Hanandes is thrown out like every mortal who has ever coached a team.
The Barca team made her decisions but Xavi, until his last dance as a coach kept playing like he was still in competition to me his last dance, was a masterclass and the best moments were watching him.
You see, most times at work we think we work for people but it's a two-way street when you find fulfillment in the work you do, You are like an artist whose work was criticized but went back to create his next work because the work makes the artist.
To the employee who was sacked, how did he treat his last day at work, it's either “see you soon” or “goodbye” depending on how much awareness you have, most times it sees you soon.
See you soon doest have to be vindictive See you is the word for the professional who understands every work proposal is an audition.
The past five years have seen Barcelona finish 88 points last season and second highest 85 points this season both club's highest and produced by Xavi Henandes.
FC Barcelona and Real Madrid remain two clubs whose metric for success is not emotional.
You could be sacked after winning everything as a Madrid coach but losing to Barcelona reminds you that you must raise the bar high and never get comfortable with the voices of the masse.
In the end, this conversion isn't completely about Xavi Hernandez but about us and the work we do. As professionals keep upping your game.
Charles Umeh
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