Gavi, the "competitive animal" that is crowned in Riyadh: "That it does not stop, that it has no ceiling"

• Chronicle Barça shakes an indolent Madrid and recovers stripes in the Desert Super Cup

• Direct This was the final of the Super Cup

8 years, 163 days and a crown that can be worn for years.

The precocious

managed on the night in Riyadh to unleash a

in the style of

that destroyed

with three blows.

The three went through their boots, which attract the ball without complexes, to end up in the nets of

, unable to defend a team torn to shreds without the ball and without chances.

The sensations prevailed over the data in the happy blaugrana night in the Rey Fahd stadium.

FC Barcelona added its 14th Super Cup, the first title without

, the uncorking of the Xavi era and the debut of

raising trophies, but there were two protagonists.

The first, a kid who, with 30 on his back, still has a record of the subsidiary.

Xavi asked his players for more nerve and ambition to win the first title of the season and Gavi took it to the letter.

He insisted on giving

the game .

The goal that

served him made him the youngest footballer to score in a Super Cup, unseating his coach, and allowed him to celebrate again almost a year later, because the Sevillian had not seen a goal since he scored against Atlético last month February.

If Gavi has something, it's voracity and, as he saw his night, he first returned the gift to Lewandowski so that he would score his twentieth goal and then to his friend

.

A goal and two assists in a match with the weight of a classic and the first title at stake.

In the 89 minutes that he was on the field, he even had time to challenge a Real Madrid defender.

The hug from

when handing him the champion's medal is not surprising, nor is it surprising that the coach

, who never had him in the U-21, licked his lips in the box thinking about the player's leadership with Spain.

At Barça he already has it.

He recognizes it until Captain Busquets.

“He is a competitive animal.

At that age, most of the players are in the youth team or in the reserves, and he is providing assists and goals.

He has a way to improve to learn and listen and hopefully he will be a footballer who marks an era », admitted the veteran footballer who yesterday became the one who has played the most classics.

He could have been the protagonist for his new strip display, but Gavi got on his beard.

«He infects us all, the courage and rage to play comes out of him.

Don't stop because you don't have a roof”, Xavi did not hesitate to say about the Sevillian.

As an 18-year-old boy, Gavi preferred celebrating wildly across the pitch in his Campions jersey rather than explaining the origin of his talent.

"

. I still have a lot to improve, but I see myself very well. What player have I noticed? My idols have always been

and

", he admitted.

Xavi: "I prefer the how"

If the final had a protagonist on the pitch, the other was on the bench.

Xavi finally saw his script embodied from start to finish, with a ball and seeking to satisfy his hunger.

He hugged

but fled the limelight.

He went around the field alone with his brother and in the opposite direction to the team, on the way to the locker room.

«There are many players have been released.

Inside we are a pineapple and, somehow, everything has come out.

», He argued.

Not even an excuse Ancelotti made.

“We have to learn because we have given away the first two goals.

We knew that we were in a difficult moment, that we had shortcomings.

We have to avoid gifts and then play as a team," said the Italian who did not want to go into details but ruled out that it was humiliation, "in sport you win and they beat you."

It was not useful for the white team to play in the 'Bernabéu del desierto', which was not full.

There were culés fans, noisy, but much less than madridistas, who despite the disappointment endured to applaud a show that will return in a year.

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