“Today we worked on free-kicks and you are surprised by players who do it very well in training. Leo Messi, at 21, didn’t take free-kicks and it was Tito Vilanova who convinced him to,” Xavi has explained in a recent press conference.
“There is no specialist like Leo, but we have good players for it. It is something you can train.”
Back when he was only beginning his Barcelona journey, our set-piece specialists were Ronaldinho and Xavi. Leo didn’t score his first free kick until the 2008/09 season and now he’s got 50 of them at the club level, according to Transfermarkt.
However, he started scoring them regularly in 2011. Back then, Tito was Pep Guardiola’s assistant.
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