With the Spanish international players enjoying a free day before they fly to South Africa on Thursday, June 10, FC Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez (30) made good use of his day by signing a contract extension until the year 2016.

The extension includes some conditional factors, based on his playing time in future seasons. At age 30, it is also almost a guarantee that he will end his career where he began it: with FC Barcelona.

Here is what the official FC Barcelona website had to say:

Xavi Hernandez and Club president Joan Laporta put their signatures to the new clauses in the deal, which link additional seasons to matches played, at lunchtime on Wednesday. Xavi has now committed the rest of his top-flight career to the Club. The salary and release clauses remain the same.

The conditions that will be applied to the contract extension are clear. If Xavi plays at least 50% of the games in the last two seasons of his current deal (2012/13 and 2013/14), he will automatically win a further year – 2014/15.

The same formula and the same conditions will be repeated a year later. If Xavi plays at least half of the matches in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons, he will be automatically renewed until 30th June 2016. At that moment he will be 36 and will have spent the previous 25 years at the Club – he joined the youth academy when he was 11.