Gareth Bale (Cardiff, 1989) said goodbye to football at the age of 33 after a career with iconic moments that reflected his immense talent and justified his fame, but left the feeling that part of the magic he valued was not completely out. .
Chiseled in the quarry southampton, made his first team debut on 17 April 2006 aged 16, 9 months and one day against Milwall. At the time, only Theo Walcott released the younger, albeit later Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Y Luke Shaw they dropped him to fourth place.
Located on the left side, in his first appearances the Welshman stood out for his pace and his excellent striking from set pieces. These virtues are not alien to his national team, which gave him an alternative in 16 years and 315 days. That gave him a precocity record surpassed only by his country Harry Wilson.
Given the circumstances, it remained only to wait to find out which ‘big’ of England would throw the nets at him. he did Tottenham, who bet on him in 2007 to strengthen the left side of his back. There he finds himself in his beginnings, as his first campaign is conditioned by an injury. Over time, the technical Harry Redknapp He chose to advance his position and take it to the extreme.
Bale, little fan of playing at the back despite his excellent performance, has more than returned showing confidence and also taken a step forward in football. The best demonstration was offered at San Siro against Inter Milanin a match that surely put him on display at the international showcase.
Rarely has a footballer been better at losing, than his team experienced that night in the Champions League. Down 4-0, Bale took the lead and headed the ball home thanks to three powerful shots to the base of the left post of the goal Julius Caesar two of them after unforgettable rides that set fire to the grass and legs of a myth like Javier Zanetti.
His development did not end there, as he continued to make merits until he established himself as the leader of his team with 11 behind him instead of 3, thus losing one of his last traces he carried from his past as a protector.
The moment came where the context required him to look beyond Tottenham and that was when the Real Madrid It opened the doors to a new dimension, releasing about 100 million euros for it.
Physical discomfort conditioned the start of his first season at the white club, 2013-2014. But between the end of October and the end of November, he chained a series of good games against rivals such as Juventus or Sevilla that served as the beginning to explain the reason for the investment made.
Those who still couldn’t believe despite those flashes changed their minds by the end of the season. The first hit on the table was given on April 16, 2014, in Valencia. On that day, at the end of Copa del Rey against him Barcelonahe drained all the fuel he had left in the tank in an unforgettable sprint against Marc Bartra, even running out of the field, to give his team the title in the final minutes.
That intense idyll in matches where titles are at stake will be repeated on May 24 in Lisbon, when he scores the second of the goals in the Champions League final that the Whites won 4-1 against Atletico Madridexactly the same Sergio Ramos in the 93rd minute.
The year 2014 would end with a third goal in a decisive moment, the one he scored against Saint Lawrence of Almagro Argentina in the 2-0 victory that confirmed the conquest of Club World Cup in Morocco.
Those were days of luxury for him and his two common raiding companions, Karim Benzema Y Cristiano Ronaldo. Together they developed the baptized forward ‘BBC’, trident that will support the successes that are yet to come for Real Madrid on the offensive level.
This was the case of the Champions League in the 2015-2016 season, again winning the last match against Atlético Madrid, at that time in punishments. Also raised in 2016-2017 against Juventus in his hometown, individually sweet after a season in which his injuries began to recur.
His final serve of note, which furthered his legend in the finals, was the beautiful Chilean he delivered against Liverpool in Kyiv and that accounted for the first of his two goals in that clash which won 3-1 on a disastrous night for the goal Karius. From that moment, nothing was the same, except for his great performance in the 2018 Club World Cup, a ‘hat-trick’ in the semifinals against him. Kashima Antlers including japanese.
The passing Real Madrid He gradually disappeared in a haze of injuries, substitutions, pictures playing golf, displays of disagreement and even a loan at Tottenham where he could not replicate what he showed years ago. He finally left for good Los Angeles FCwhere he lifted two trophies as the culmination of his career.
In this, with his twilight period, he never stopped ‘pulling’ the Welsh team. International football will remember him, but his country will remember him more. Welsh, when I thought I wasted the shine on the green of ryan giggs Without playing any international competition along the way, he found his ‘replacement’, which changed everything.
From Bale’s hand, Welsh reached the semifinals in Euro 2016 and to also play in 2020. In addition, his goals will be decided for him to be present in the recent Qatar World Cup. A 0-3 loss in that tournament against England it was his last game.
Source: La Verdad
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