Xavi continues breaking records
Xavi Hernández continues breaking Club records and this Tuesday he became the first Barca player to play in 150 international games. He made his debut on the European stage on September 16th 1998 at Old Trafford and has now gone on to make 129 Champions League appearances, as well as 13 in the UEFA Cup, 3 in the European Super Cup and 5 in the World Club Cup. In those 150 games, he has scored 12 times – 10 in the Champions League and once in the UEFA and World Club Cups, the official FC Barcelona website reports.
Xavi is followed by an illustrious list of Barca players, including Puyol, Víctor Valdés, Iniesta, Migueli, Messi, Guardiola, Sergi, Zubizarreta and Cocu and also figures in the top ten European players with most international appearances. Paolo Maldini leads that group with 181 games played, followed by Raúl González, Clarence Seedorf, Javier Zanetti and Ryan Giggs, legends of European football who Xavi is fast catching up on.