The Barcelona coach spoke before the match against Athletic Club de Bilbao and was consulted about Joan Laporta’s comments.
FC Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández spoke at a press conference ahead of the match against Athletic Club de Bilbao, on matchday 10 of LaLiga. In the press room, the Barça coach was asked what the “sociological Madridism” means that Joan Laporta, president of Barça, had been talking about in recent hours.
In this sense, Xavi said what sociological Madridismo refers to ‘situations’ that they use from the Spanish capital to ‘destabilize’. “The ‘Villarato’ was invented by a Madrid newspaper, that’s what the president is referring to. In Barça’s best period they said we were using doping…” said the coach of the Catalan team. “We don’t talk about this in the locker room, but it is proof that it exists. I support the president 100%,” he added.
It is necessary to point out that andThe term “Villarato” was Alfredo Relaño’s way of coining the actions of former RFEF president Ángel María Villar in relation to the two biggest clubs in Spain, Real Madrid and Barcelona. After the birth of the term, it came to mean (for part of the press, generally more friendly to Real Madrid) a referee plot favorable to Barcelona, where the referees and the Federation favored the Catalan club.
It is worth remembering that Thursday Laporta said that “there is an orchestrated campaign” to discredit Barcelona by using the Negreira case. “There is a sociological Madridism in the centers of power in the capital that is very strong. I encountered it and I defeated them. And that influenced them. “They have had a bad time and are afraid that what is in my first era happened, will repeat itself, what was the best Barça in history.”
When asked whether Real Madrid had processed Barcelona’s success in the past, Xavi replied: “I don’t know if Real Madrid have digested our success. It’s a question for them. I agree 100 percent with the president, completely.”
And when asked about the accusation against Laporta of bribery in the Negreira case, the coach replied that “the accusation has to do with sociological Madridismo.”
Source: Goal