Carlos Tevez does not hold back the tears in his goodbye to Boca Juniors | International Soccer

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Carlos Tevez, 37 years old and the last idol of Boca Juniors, announced this Friday that he is leaving Xeneize in tears because “mentally” he is not “ready” to give the club what it needs and said he believed he was retiring, although he clarified that it was possible that in three months he would “feel like playing” in another team.

“I thought this moment would never come. Here I am to tell you that I will not continue in the club, it is not a farewell, I always say it, but a see you soon, I will always be for the fan, for the people Xeneize. Not as a player but as the Carlitos of the people.

“I am full with this decision because I have nothing else to give, as a player I gave everything,” he said. ‘the Apache’ at a press conference.

“Boca always needed me 120 percent and today I am not prepared to give him that. Boca leads you to give much more than the maximum and I am mentally in no condition to give it. I did not even have time to mourn my father and he was already playing back, that’s what Boca’s demand is. “

Carlos Tevez said that many people asked him to “hold out” until December or until the people could return to the field, but that it was “very difficult” for him.

‘El Apache’ said he did not have “even time” to mourn his father, who died in February.
“I do not know what I am going to do in the future, for now I am only clear that I want to be a father, son, husband. Physically I am here to continue but mentally I am not to continue. Today my family needs me and I am there for them,” he said. .

Carlos Tevez was a starter in Boca Juniors, which qualified for the knockout stages of the Copa Libertadores but was eliminated this Monday in the semifinals of the Argentine Professional Soccer League Cup.

‘El Apache’ made his debut at Boca Juniors in 2001, in 2005 he went to Corinthians, in 2006 to West Ham, in 2007 to Manchester United, in 2009 to Manchester City and in 2013 to Juventus.

In 2015 he returned to Boca Juniors, in 2017 he played for Shanghai Shenhua and the following year he returned to the club of his loves.