The newspapers tell his story in the conditional or past tense. "What could have been and wasn't" or "Xavi who couldn't be." "I don't care, all these things. Those around me suffer more. Sometimes at home they ask me if I don't feel sorry. My wife, even my children sometimes, ask me: 'And you don't feel sorry?' Do you think about why? Do they think I didn't want to? That I wouldn't have liked to be what everyone thought I was going to be? "He was the best thing at La Masia. I'll never forget his name. A cross between Messi and Laudrup. "He had everything, but he lost it," said Xavi Hernández, a generation and dream teammate.