Formerly of FC Barcelona and the Spanish team, Andres Iniesta will announce the end of his football career at the age of forty.
His exile in Japan and then in Saudi Arabia led some to believe that he had stopped playing football. Misleading impression since Andres Iniesta was still active. Until this summer and the end of his contract with the Emirates Club. Author of five goals and an assist in twenty-three appearances, the midfielder was unable to prevent his team’s relegation. Without a club since then, he has met his fans on October 8 for an announcement.
On his social networks, he posted a message on Tuesday with a video of himself taken from behind, with his FC Barcelona jersey. But his number 8 appears lying there. Enough to clearly make you think about retirement. While waiting to know the end of the story, an XXL page in the history of recent Spanish football will be turned. And one of the last of the great Barça of the 2000s. Associated with Xavi during his years blaugranaIniesta participated fully in the undivided domination of his team.
A monument
Andres Iniesta, for example, is nine Spanish championship titles between 2005 and 2018. It is also four Champions Leagues, six Copas del Rey, seven Spanish Super Cups and even three Club World Cups. Exiled in Japan, he also won the J-League Division in 2023 with his team Vissel Kobe of which he became player-coach. A Spanish international selected one hundred and thirty times, he was crowned world champion in 2010 and won two consecutive Euros (2008, 2012).
A completely crazy track record which led him to flirt with the Ballon d’Or. Fourth in 2009 and 2011, he was also third in 2012, while he came close to the Grail in 2010, finishing second behind Lionel Messi. On October 8, Andres Iniesta will most likely turn the page.
A bit like Raphaël Varane for French football, a monument to Iberian football is about to hang up.
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