‘It’s like he has a magic wand’

© Supplied by PlanetFootball
Andres-Iniesta-Barcelona1

Andres Iniesta won every little thing there is to acquire through his occupation with Barcelona and Spain – which include the regard of every person involved in football.

The La Masia graduate manufactured 674 appearances for Barca between 2002 and 2016, lifting an outstanding 32 trophies, plus the Entire world Cup and two European Championships with Spain.

Famously a single of only a few Barcelona gamers to be applauded by Actual Madrid supporters, it is tricky for anyone to have a poor word about these types of an extraordinary talent.

Pep Guardiola

“Iniesta does not dye his hair, he doesn’t dress in earrings and he hasn’t received any tattoos. Probably that would make him unattractive to the media, but he is the ideal.”

Lionel Messi

“Andres and I are similar in that we the two use our bodies a great deal, to keep away from opponents. But he has anything that usually amazes me. There’s constantly a minute when you feel you’re heading to capture him, when you feel you’re heading to get the ball off him, but you just cannot.

“He’s not in particular swift, but he has that potential to generally get away from you, which arrives from his strategy.”

Sergio Ramos

“Iniesta is the boyfriend that just about every mom wishes her daughter to have. The figures more than his job tell you all you require to know. He is a magical participant. There are handful of players in the planet that can assess to him.”

David Silva

“The push typically request me no matter if Messi or Ronaldo is the greatest, but for me one thing is quite very clear: Andres Iniesta is the selection one particular. He is equipped to do even far more complicated factors on the pitch. He is magic with the ball and so influential.”

Andres Iniesta: The Finest Offers

Click to grow

UP Subsequent

Xavi

“Iniesta is very easily Spain’s most total player. He has almost everything. Playing along with him is incredibly straightforward.”

Zinedine Zidane

“He reminds me of myself.”

Yaya Toure

“Iniesta – he is the Zinedine Zidane of the team mainly because he can do no matter what you want him to with the ball.”

Luka Modric

“Iniesta is a terrific player. If folks evaluate me to him, that tends to make me happy. He is a person of the ideal midfielders in the record of soccer. I like actively playing in opposition to him. I admire him as a participant and an athlete.”

Fernando Torres

“When he has the ball, it is like every thing else stops – like the digicam is heading in gradual motion.”

Cesc Fabregas

“He’s artistic, he operates with the ball, he’s bought a fantastic remaining move and with each individual passing 12 months he’s turn out to be much more of a goalscorer as perfectly as a supplier.

“He’s a source of enormous confidence for us. In the course of matches you can see him using on much more and a lot more duty and in assault he’s the team’s reference level.”

Ronaldinho

“When I see him engage in these days, he reminds me of Xavi. He was often a prime-high quality player. He commenced extremely youthful with us, and it is mad to see how he has gone on to make so a great deal historical past.”

Vicente del Bosque

“He is the total footballer. He can assault and protect, he creates and scores.”

Luis Enrique

“Iniesta’s the most inventive participant in Spanish soccer at the moment. He’s like Harry Potter. A single, two, 3 and whoosh… he’s past the participant. It’s like he has a magic wand.”

Jorge Sampaoli

“Andres Iniesta is the very best player in the entire world. Andres is just one of the ideal in knowing the recreation, and he powers the rest of the staff.”

Massimiliano Allegri

“Iniesta’s skill to develop helps is just one of the most effective in the earth. You have to be incredibly excellent at marking them both of those [Iniesta and Messi] and restrict their danger.”

Cesar Luis Menotti

“There are some players who we don’t chat about how very good they are. A ton of gamers are talked about, but the best in the environment is Iniesta. He’s a participant who can dribble, he can play, set up objectives, operate and a great deal a lot more, and he’s nonetheless not been presented the Ballon d’Or.”

Ray Hudson

“Magic from Iniesta. He doesn’t pull rabbits out of his hat, he pulls out big, attractive peacocks.”

Petr Cech

“He is a person of the ideal gamers in the earth and I’m not just chatting about my period. I’m conversing about in the historical past of the sport.”

Gordon Strachan

“I see an individual who is in appreciate with the activity, somebody who would seem to get terrific satisfaction from taking part in along with fantastic gamers and seeing fantastic gamers and considering they are fantastic players.

“He is oblivious to the actuality that he is up there with them. There is a humility about him. Most folks I discuss to normally chat about Messi, but I drag them to Iniesta.”

Far more Barcelona

9 explanations Andres Iniesta is an icon: ‘Everything is different with Andres’

Can you name Barca’s 15 youngest La Liga goalscorers because 2000?

A tribute to Barcelona-era Ronaldo and his *other* hat-trick v Valencia

A forensic analysis of when Ronaldinho ruined True but had supporters applaud