Piqué announced his retirement from professional football: “Barca gave me everything”

Barcelona’s historic Spanish defender, Gerard Pique, announced that he is retiring from professional practice and that Saturday’s next match against Almeria at the Camp Nou will be his last game at the “Culé”. Through a video on social networks, the defender said that his feeling for Barcelona will be eternal, but in the last time he suffered strong criticism for his level and failed to enter the team led by Xavi Hernández. Culers, I have to tell you one thing,” he said at the beginning of Piqué’s video, made in Catalan and subtitled in Spanish. “Culers, I’m Gerard. For weeks, months, many people have been talking about me. So far I have said nothing. But now I want to be the one to talk to them about me,” said the defender who won 30 titles with Barcelona.
In addition, he continued that “from a very young age I did not want to be a footballer, I wanted to be a Barca player”, and added: “Lately I have thought a lot about that child, what that little Gerard would have thought if they had told him that he would fulfill all his dreams. That he would reach the first team of Barca, that he would win all the possible titles, that he would be champion of Europe and the World, that he would play alongside the best in history.” Finally, he added: “It’s been 25 years since I joined Barcelona. I left and came back. Football gave me everything, Barca gave me everything. You, culés, gave me everything”, in his farewell that will be face-to-face this Saturday in a match for the thirteenth date of LaLiga.

Original source in Spanish