Barca assistant Unzue receives players' backing for top job


Football Soccer - Barcelona v Las Palmas - Spanish La Liga Santander - Camp Nou stadium, Barcelona, Spain - 14/01/2017. Barcelona's coach Luis Enrique and Juan Carlos Unzue watch their team's match against Las Palmas. REUTERS/Albert Gea

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta and team mates Ivan Rakitic and Gerard Pique have all given their backing to assistant coach Juan Carlos Unzue potentially taking over from Luis Enrique as head coach of the Spanish champions.

Unzue is one of the two leading candidates to succeed Luis Enrique, who announced this month he will leave at the end of this season, along with Athletic Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde.

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