Gerard Piqué quits football! Watch the moving video announcing his decision

Announcing the end of your active playing career in the middle of the season is certainly not common. In Gerard Piqué’s case, however, a number of circumstances came together to force him to hang up his cleats. After all, as he said himself, he does not want to play for another club and he won’t.

On Thursday, Piqué published a video on his social networks announcing his end at Barcelona. After much criticism from many quarters, everyone was disappointed.

The long-time Barcelona mainstay has been preserved as a true legend whose heart really only beats for the Catalan club. ” I’ve always said I don’t want to play for another club and that’s the way it’s going to stay,” Piqué says in the video.

“I didn’t want to become a footballer, I wanted to become a Barcelona player,” the 35-year-old defender explains his reason for quitting football. It is now virtually impossible for Piqué to break onto the pitch.

Xavi prefers this foursome of stoppers Ronald Araújo, Eric García, Andreas Christensen and Jules Koundé. Piqué only got on the pitch because of their injuries.

When you add to that the great pressure from the fans and the management, who were bothered by the high salary that did not allow the club to invest much needed money at the moment, his move is logical.

On top of that, we can add his recent break-up with Shakira and his own business, for which he was also often the target of criticism from fans who accused him of being more concerned with his own affairs than preparing for matches.

This is too much for one man and even more so for someone who is totally committed to his club, which he has now definitively confirmed with this move.

Piqué thus brings to a close a career in which he has looked beyond Barcelona, his hometown, to Manchester United and Real Zaragoza. He has been with the A-team at Camp Nou since the summer of 2008, when he transferred from Manchester United for €5 million.

Since then, he has collected so many trophies that he probably can’t even remember them all himself. However, the Champions League wins, of which there were 4 in total (1 with Manchester United), 8 La Liga championships and the World and European Championship titles were moments that this generation will not forget.

UD Almería will then be his last game, in which he will say a final farewell to the fans at the Camp Nou as a player. But he is clear about his future, he wants to return to the club one day.

Source: Twitter, Marca