Xavi remarked that he never saw strange behavior in Albert Benaiges.
The Barcelona coach, Xavi Hernández, has been “very surprised and affected” by the complaints to Albert Benaiges, former coordinator of Barça youth football, for the alleged abuses that during two decades he would have carried out minors when he was a physical education teacher in a school in Barcelona.
“I am very surprised and affected because I did not expect it. I hope that justice will carry out its process, I cannot say anything else ”, assured the coach of the Egarense in the press conference prior to the game that his team will play this Sunday against Osasuna.
Xavi, who coincided with Benaiges when he played in the lower categories of Barcelona, has remarked that he has “no news” that the former coach carried out behaviors similar to those denounced by the victims during his time at the Barça club.
“It is a very delicate subject, very complicated. We have discussed it with the technical team because we love Albert (Benaiges) very much. He has surprised us a lot because we have always had an excellent deal with him ”, he added.
The Mossos d’Esquadra They are already investigating several complaints from people who claim when they were minors they suffered sexual abuse by Benaiges.
According to sources from the Catalan police, the investigation has been opened as a result of the complaints filed in various police stations of the Mossos d’Esquadra by victims of alleged sexual abuse, which the newspaper Ara uncovered this Saturday.
Following a journalistic investigation, the newspaper collects some sixty testimonies from people who suffered abuse by Benaiges when he was a physical education teacher at the Escola Barcelona, in the Barcelona neighborhood of Les Corts, a position he held for 38 years.
Born in Mexico in 1955, Benaiges was considered one of the leaders in the training of Barcelona youth soccer players for more than two decades.
With the arrival of Joan Laporta to the presidency last April, he returned to Barcelona as coordinator of grassroots football after his departure from the club in 2011 to work in Dubai.
After this stage, he signed for the Mexican Chivas, where he spent three months, to later work in the Dominican Republic and Japan. (D)
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