For so long, Spain were one of international football’s great underachievers. England’s 58 ‘years of hurt’ and counting is well-documented and always circulated around the time of major tournaments, ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Good news for Barcelona and Spain, bad news for all their rivals. Xavi says he is in the best form of his life. The diminutive playmaker put in a match-winning performance against ...

Back in his midfield days, Xavi’s signature move was turning out of pressure. He would receive with opponents closing around him like a net and spin in a tight little spiral until his markers fell ...

The midfielder, 39, has announced that he will retire at the end of the season and he will do so as one of the finest players the game has ever seen "We live in the present, Xavi lives in the future,” ...