Cesc Fabregas retired from football: Messi’s emotional dedication

After 20 years of career in which he added important individual distinctions and harvested an immense number of titles, Cesc Fábregas announced his retirement from professional football to start his path as a coach and Lionel Messi, his teammate in the lower and for three seasons in the first of Barça, dedicated a tribute to him. After 21 seasons playing professionally, the time has come to hang up your boots… I will never forget my first days at Arenys, Mataró, Barça, Arsenal, the return to Barça, Chelsea, Monaco and Como. I have lifted the World Cup, two European Championships, won everything in England and Spain and almost all the European trophies. It has been a journey impossible to forget,” he wrote on his social networks. I have lived experiences that I never thought, not in a million years, that I would approach. I have learned 3 languages and I can say that has made me more compassionate and wise. It has been very worthwhile for all the great memories and friends I have made along the way,” concluded the footballer. Although Fabregas made the lower divisions with Messi in Barcelona, without a place to debut in the first was sold to Arsenal and, after shining and forming a key piece of the Spanish team winner of the 2010 World Cup, returned almost eight years later to the Spanish club. There he played a fundamental role to continue with the golden age of the club, and achieved in his first year the Spanish Super Cup, along with the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup. After three years, the footballer said goodbye again to the institution to arrive at Chelsea, an institution in which he remained for another five years until his transfer in 2019 to Monaco. Faced with various injuries and physical problems that marginalized his participation in the principality team, Fábregas signed with Como 1907 for two years, however, he was only for one season before ending his career. Still on vacation, Messi dedicated a few words to the footballer accompanied by an image together in his time in Barcelona. “You know how good we think of you and your family. You are a crack and we will continue to spend many moments together, we love you very much and we wish you all the best in your new stage friend!! Huge hug,” he wrote.

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