The refusal of the Xavi in May, and the appointment of the subsequent Hansi Flick changed everything.
The German coach gave him a greater role and allowed him to play with confidence. He is now a player who is born again.
Flick focused on its work on the importance of making more intelligent decisions, knowing when it should take, and when to pass. The more directly the direct style for it.
These days, he loses the ball less and is more efficient and consists in front of the goal. His current statistics are great.
He has 26 goals and 19 passes in 40 games and scored in each match he played in the Champions League this season. He has created himself as one of the main players in Barcelona and a real competitor.
He was also voted as one of the team's leaders, as he got the fourth highest balance of votes behind Mark Andre Tigon Stegen and Ronald Araojo and Frenke de Jong. When they were injured, he became the club captain.
Lamine Yamal, who also played the starring role in a victory on Benfica, said that Ravenha is his main teacher.
This completes well with the fact that with the Brazilian national team is the undisputed leader in the group.
His winner was in the last minute in the beating team winning 4-5 in Benfica, a major moment in his season and the club.
His celebration, with the entire Barcelona seat, was running towards him in the rainy rain, a symbolic picture of the team's unit and attributed his position as captain in the dressing room.
It is clear that it is one of the most respectable voices in the dressing room, not excessively vocal, but he is a leader, for example, not only in matches but of the same importance in training.
Raphinha knows how difficult it is for him to reach what it is today, how much the fate of the volatile football is capable and that it is primarily in your successful times that find yourself closer to failure.
To achieve this purpose, it leaves nothing to chance. He spoke frankly about how to avoid deviations outside football.
He has no interest in nightlife or parties, preferring to spend time at home with his family or focus on training. This is the discipline that was the key to its physical and mental peak.
And now he has reached this point, there is no stop, and if Barcelona goes away in the Champions League, no one should argue against him in mind that one of the best players in the world.
