Xavi, ready to return to coaching on the bench of a national team qualified for the World Championship!
Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 23:47 / Updated on Tuesday, 24 February 2026 23:48
Xavi (46 years old), the former technician of Barcelona, is close to returning to coaching, notes MARK. He is wanted insistently on the Moroccan national team bench, in the context in which the selector Walid Regragui (50 years old) would be dismissed.
Even if the official announcement hasn't come yet, it's only a matter of time before Morocco sends the communique.
The African national team is qualified for the World Championship, where they will meet Brazil, Scotland and Haiti in Group C.
Xavi, wanted on the Moroccan national team bench
Xavi Hernandez he is free of contract from 2024, after parting with Barcelona, the team with which he won the title and the Spanish Super Cup.
“The Moroccan Football Federation is convinced that the Catalan technician, interested in an extensive project, represents the profile of a coach capable of leading the national team to the 2026 World Championship.
The objective is to confirm the performance of Qatar 2022, when Morocco finished the competition in a historic 4th place. The mission promises to be complicated, and Xavi is seen as the ideal solution to achieve this goal“, the Spaniards write.
Until then, Morocco must announce the separation from Regragui, and then the Federation must satisfy the Catalan's demands, four months before the start of the World Championship.
Morocco has scheduled two friendly games until then: on March 27 with Ecuador, respectively on March 31 with Paraguay.
Xavi only coached two club teams, Barcelona and Al-Sadd.
With the coach Regragui, in addition to the 2nd place in the African Cup of Nations, Morocco achieved the greatest performance in the history of African football, the presence in the semifinals of the last edition of the World Cup.
The dismissal of Xavi, a decision taken by Laporta in 2024
In 2024, Joan Laporta, the president of Barcelona, took the decision to fire Xavi: “I take responsibility for the decision as for all decisions, together with my board of directors.
But I also took into account the decision of the sports management and since I had Flick's option, I executed it. It gave us a lot of confidence to see that he knows the team more than we thought“.
Xavi sat on the Barcelona bench for 143 matches, during which he achieved 91 wins, 23 draws and 29 defeats.
