Sometimes the little details make the difference. Now the Kings League is a success, recognized nationally and internationally and with finals at the Civitas Metropolitano or the Camp Nou itself. Although he seems to have been with us for at least five years, in reality he has only lived through two splits and a few months of competition. Gerard Piqué announced his creation once he hung up his boots, before the World Cup in Qatar. And, until this Thursday, he had not exposed what was the trigger for the creation of this new tournament. This time he did reveal it, in a relaxed conversation with Ibai and when they were not even talking about the new competition. Yeah, The turning point for the idea to cross his head was the mistake he made against Inter Milan in the group stage of the Champions League.
“This ball goes to the goalkeeper calmly, even if I don’t touch it. If I jump, I don’t get there.” To which Ibai asks: “Do you think you can’t get to this ball?” Piqué is blunt: “I think it didn’t come, but then the fact of doing it like that with your hands, if you hadn’t done it, people wouldn’t realize it. But it is equally true that this error, perhaps there would be no Kings League without this error. Everything in life happens for a reason“.
Then Ibai explains that with Barcelona in the round of 16 of the Champions League, Piqué would not have hung up his boots, but the player surprises and states that he had already decided: “I already had the retire thing… At the beginning of the season, in the first two, three days I already said that before the World Cup I would retire“.
Piqué took that mistake as a reference to think about football from other angles. Until then, despite having already made the decision to retire from the world of professional sports, he was focused on staying in full swing and helping Barcelona achieve his goals. That ruling was transformed in parallel into a wave of criticism. In this process, the center-back began to get psyched up about the takeoff of his new life.
That’s where the Kings League appeared, Piqué’s new facet, which has generated so much commotion in recent months. An unfortunate action against Inter led the player to believe in the project and put it into operation immediately. Shortly after his retirement, the league beganwhich has had the participation of other elite soccer players as presidents (Casillas and Kun Agüero), as well as the most popular streamers in the country.
The “remains” came… when he already knew that Neymar was leaving!
Another of the great revelations of the direct has been the context about the “remains”, the popular photo with which it seemed to announce the continuity of Neymar days before his departure to Paris Saint Germain was made official for 222 million euros, currently the most expensive transfer of all time. Piqué’s publication made all the culé fans believe that the Brazilian would continue in the team.
The surprising thing is that he has revealed to Ibai that, at that time, Neymar had already told him that he was leaving and that, therefore, he uploaded the photo knowing that he would not continue at Barcelona. The explanation that the central defender now gives is that in a joking tone and with the intention of encouraging his partner to make such a decision, decided to post the image. Later he himself realized that it had been a mistake because of everything he had supposed.
That revelation came in the context of the future of Neymar, whom Piqué would consider a great signing for the current Barcelona squad. “It would be necessary to see if the operation is viable“, he qualifies. He also spoke about the topic of the summer: Mbappé. For the ex-soccer player, the Frenchman will not reach Real Madrid, although he defends the position of the entity chaired by Florentino Pérez in the face of the anomalous situation.
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2023-08-10 20:43:01
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