BARCELONA – “Xavi will come to Barça if I win the elections. If he doesn’t come, I promise to pay out of pocket. “Víctor Font gave his first media impact of the still pre-election campaign in Barcelona, publicly committing to incorporate Xavi if on January 24 he is elected president With a crystalline clarity and imitating the old chapter of Florentino Pérez in the elections from Real Madrid in 2000, when he promised to sign Luis Figo or, if not, to pay the subscription to all members of the merengue club.
The leader of the Sí al Futur team took this step forward, during an interview with a satirical sports radio program focused on the Barça club, La Sotana, ready to dispel all doubts that returned to the plane last week, when he himself Xavi distanced from the election campaign by stating that “I don’t want to be proactive about any candidate.”
Font bet hard at a time when all his rivals took advantage of Xavi’s statements to remove him from his project, as did Joan Laporta when he said he found it “strange” that the Catalan coach was engaged in a candidacy. or Xavi Vilajoana, who presented him as “an asset of the club” and decided that “his acquisition, like any other, is a mistake. His name should not be part of a presidential election. “
Víctor Font’s statement takes as a reference the strategy that Florentino Pérez carried out in the summer of 2000, when he won his first elections for the presidency of Real Madrid, promising that if he will be the most voted candidate (he will face Lorenzo Sanz) he would have signed Luis Figo, Barça’s captain and the highest standard at the time. The distrust of his promise in the surroundings of the Bernabeu made Florentino publicly commit to paying the subscription of all the members of the white club if in the end the Portuguese did not sign for Madrid.