The Barca centre-back says goodbye to a career plagued by success on the pitch and troubles off it
Gerard Piqué announced the end of his sports career this Thursday through an emotional video on social networks. The 35-year-old centre-back will face Almería in the final game at the Camp Nou this Saturday and will be hanging up his boots in the winter market, ending 15 consecutive seasons as a Barça player and ending a marked career through success at home. the field and extra-sports mess around outside. One of the best middle backs in Spain’s history is leaving, but also something ‘more than a footballer’.
“Now that the childhood dreams have been fulfilled, it’s time to close that loop. I have always said that after Barca there will be no other team and it will be. This Saturday will be my last game at the Camp Nou. Sooner or later I’ll be back,” Piqué announced this Thursday on social networks in a video assessing his childhood in which he longed to become a culé player, his successes as European and world champion and in which he opened a door for his return, who knows or as one of the Barça directors of the future.
And is that Gerard Pique has always been something more than a footballer. It leaves him with 8 leagues, 1 Premier League, 4 Champions Leagues, 7 King’s Cups, 3 European Super Cups, 6 Spanish Super Cups, a Euro Cup and a World Cup, a record that has been overshadowed by the continuous extra-sport problems he has had seen packed. “Geri” has been the authorized voice in the Culé locker room for many years, the one who spoke the loudest and the one who has repeatedly served as a lightning rod in the most difficult moments. No one like him has known how to act as a scourge of Real Madrid, reach out in a 5-0 classic on the scoreboard, call Arbeloa “familiar” or that “in the Bernabéu box the wires of the country are moved
Piqué puts an end to a career that he has combined in recent years with his other life as a businessman. The plant directly attends the board of directors of several companies dedicated to “recreational and entertainment activities”. From there, the new Davis Cup was forged, the Balloon World Cup with Ibai Llanos or even the transfer of the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, a company that reported about 24 million euros to his company and which Rubiales described in a conversation with the footballer as “a ball”. It was the penultimate scandal in a career that has led him to collect more than €80 million, or what is the same, “more money than Espanyol.”
Pique’s last months were those of a footballer sentenced to take a step back. Xavi warned him during pre-season that he would lose fame and the arrivals of players such as Christensen, Koundé or even Marcos Alonso have relegated him to an ostracism only changed by the plague of injuries. One of the best center backs in Spanish football is leaving, but also an unrepeatable footballer when it comes to generating headlines.
Source: La Verdad
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