Andrés Iniesta, the man who scored the most important goal in the history of Spanish football, is retiring. The midfielder from La Mancha has narrowed down his options to remain active for another season, but At 40 years old, he has decided to put an end to to one of the most successful careers in football with an event that, as Relevo has learned, will take place on the 8th, like its number.
The scorer of the goal in the World Cup final in South Africa that earned him the first, and so far only, star on the National Team’s shirt He was in Dubai with his family, training and staying in shape to try to find a new adventure to continue his career. However, he has finally decided to put an end to a legendary career that was only missing the Ballon d’Or.
Iniesta wanted to continue improving his options to continue on the pitch, as he himself pointed out a few weeks ago at an event in Barcelona. “I feel that I would like to continue playing football, until I feel that that moment of stopping has come to me, I will try to play. “I would also like to get my coaching degree and see what the future holds.”
For now, What Iniesta will do is receive the love of all of Spanish football and its fans after completing an unmatched career.. A child prodigy who caught the attention of the football world in the Brunete Tournament, Iniesta changed the Albacete shirt for Barcelona while he was still a child. And with the Barça shirt he became football history.
Although in the beginning he had to overcome the doubts that his physique aroused, his quality led him to overturn any skepticism. And he also did it in a big way. With Barça he won everything (4 Champions League, 3 Club World Cups, 9 Leagues, 3 European Super Cups, 6 King’s Cups and 7 Spanish Super Cups) and became one of the leading footballers in world football in recent decades.
If with Barça he was a giant, with the Spanish National Team he was a legend. Iniesta also won everything with La Roja during the national team’s heyday. Two Euro Cups (MVP in 2012) and, above all, a World Cup that managed to unite 47 million Spaniards around his goal in extra time of the final against the Netherlands.
Now there are endless questions about his future, with the possibility of seeing him on the bench after closing his career between Japan and Dubai. In Barcelona? “Evidently I would like to return to Barça at some point in my lifebecause that’s how I feel, but to say now the moment or how I don’t know, nor does anyone know, we’re going to see how things are going during this time and then we’ll see where we are,” he said a few weeks ago at an event in our country. The same one that vibrated on July 11, 2010 thanks to Iniesta of my life.
