I am here to play good football and help UAE youngsters, says Iniesta

UAE – As a child growing up in a small village, Andres Iniesta was deprived of an opportunity to play football outdoors.

There were no football pitches in Fuentealbilla, Iniesta’s native village in the Spanish province of Albacete.

So he took refuge in futsal, the indoor version of the beautiful game which is played on a hard court.

This was in the mid 1990s. But the tales of his extraordinary skills soon reached Barcelona.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Now after 22 glorious years in Europe, having pulled the strings for Barcelona and the Spanish national teams, Iniesta is all…