Jean Beausejour spoke to the media after Chile’s loss to Argentina for third place in the Copa America and confirmed “with pain and melancholy” his retirement from the national team.
“My story as a team player ends today. I’ve been thinking about it some time ago, there’s a couple of things that rush this situation,” the left-hander told CDF.
“Maybe in a year or six months my aspiration was to retire at a competitive level and I get it by starting it. Then there are other factors like my club’s present that make me need a focus of concentration,” he added.
It is worth mentioning that Beausejour scored six goals in the Red shirt and is the only Chilean to score in two in-a-row World Cups (South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014). In addition, it is part of the “Golden Generation” that triumphed in Chile 2015 and the United States 2016.
“The cups in the balance do not come in, I am filled with other things like the affection of the civil servants, the living of bad and good moments. At least for me, those things are on the balance sheet,” he said.
However, the player of the University of Chile clarified that, despite the melancholy “I know that I am current and my place Always played it to death. When you make these kinds of decisions, you don’t leave everyone happy, but the important thing is to feel calm,” he said in Sao Paulo.
Finally, he took a brief balance of Red in the America’s Cup. “Before the Cup, they were a little skeptical in Chile, and now there’s disappointment because we didn’t make it to the final. It’s in sight that we didn’t make a spectacular Cup, but if we ranked The Red among the best teams in America,” he said.
