Xavi Pascual: Un balance de lujo

On the basketball-football double match against Real, says, "can be a very special day for Barcelona"
Xavi Pascual hopes his team gives the most in the home stretch

Xavi Pascual overcomes the barrier of 150 games as coach of FC Barcelona since Regal took over the team on February 14, 2008 in place of Dusko Ivanovic. And their numbers are dizzying: almost eighty percent of victories (123) of the 154 games managed. This season, the balance of wins is more than 92 percent (51 wins and only 4 losses).

"Nothing is accidental, is the work of all, a good dynamic, to make things right, to have rigor, of wanting to be demanding, yet supportive," said Pascual told yesterday www.fcbarcelona.cat.

Gavà coach recognizes that the time on the bench of the Regal Barça "has passed very quickly," but welcomes how it developed. "The spirit is very good, has changed since that time, but the best is still growing communion between players, with the partner and the follower, and also with the technical direction." The coach clearly defined: "We are experiencing an absolute bonanza."

The numbers are very positive, "but if we looked at them we will stop and that's what we do not want." If one word defines the team Xavi Pascual and his understanding of the sport, this is dissent: "It is true that on April 8, things could not have gone better," said Catalans coach after enumerating the successes of the season: Super Cup titles ACB League Cup and the Catalan, as well as qualifying for the Final Four in Paris. The challenge is to confirm the nearest first place of the regular phase of the CBA. "From now be decided in these two great titles to aspire to them have worked very hard. Now we have to fight the best. "

Tomorrow, Regal FC Barcelona at Palau to get Real Madrid in ACB league game. A win against the runner up would almost doomed the first position. "It's the eighth time that we face in Madrid, hope things are going so well as before," says the technician, recalled that on Saturday "can be a very special day for Barcelona" in reference to the coincidence with the football classic which takes place in Madrid.

And on the horizon, the hope to win the Euroleague in Paris. "We only have one and it has long been won, is a special title from the first day, which would fill with pride to all Barcelona fans," says Pascual, who admits that "the most important is to maintain the current line, regularly reach Final Four, "something" not easy to see that teams like Panathinaikos, Maccabi Madrid have been left behind. " About the semifinals against CSKA, Barca coach Regal says that "one game anything can happen, but we'll go with the whole illusion of being able to play the final."

ALBERT VIDAL