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Spain’s 2010 World Cup match-winner held a UEFA A Licence when accepting the position in Dubai and is preparing to complete his top-level coaching qualifications this October. Asked whether the new role has truly won him over, Iniesta continued: “Yes. I already felt that – not a need, but that inner voice saying: ‘I want this, and I want to train for this.’<\/span><\/p>\n “I felt it during the process even before I began coaching. Now, it’s still there and keeps motivating me to push forward. In October, I have to begin the final step left for me, which is the UEFA Pro licence, and then I will have completed the coaching pathway.”<\/span><\/p>\n Addressing the inevitable question about a potential return to Camp Nou to manage Barcelona in the future, the veteran playmaker added: “It would be nice, but it’s not something I can… Look, I wanted to be a footballer. When I was a kid, I didn’t say, ‘I want to be a manager.’ I said I wanted to be a professional footballer, play for Barca, and succeed in the first team.<\/span><\/p>\n “That was crystal clear in my mind; those targets were non-negotiable. Now it has been a different journey, and time will tell, but obviously I am enjoying this beginning as an aspiring manager.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Spain’s 2010 World Cup match-winner held a UEFA A Licence when accepting the position in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laliga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791199236_imago-image-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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