Spanish World Cup winner and Barcelona legend Andrés Iniesta has. The 40-year-old announced hisat an event in Barcelona yesterday.
Iniesta’s football career
Andrés Iniesta made 674 appearances for Barcelona’s first team, scoring 57 goals and recording 135 assists. He joined Barcelona’s junior academy at the age of 12 in 1996 and debuted for Barcelona’s first team in 2002. The Spaniard won 32 titles with the club, including nine La Liga titles and four Champions League trophies.
Iniesta left Barcelona in 2018 to join Vissel Kobe, a club in Japan’s J-League where he played until 2023 and added three titles to his resume. He spent his final year in football at UAE Pro League Club Emirates.
With Spain, Iniesta made 131 appearances, winning back-to-back Euros in 2008 and 2012, and the World Cup in 2010. He was named the Man of the Match in the 2010 World Cup final after scoring the winning goal against the Netherlands. Iniesta’s best result in the Ballon d’Or, football’s most prestigious individual award, was runner-up to his Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi in 2010.
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The 40-year-old has indicated that he’d like to gain his coaching accreditation and stay involved with football in a coaching capacity.
What they said
Lionel Messi said: “One of the teammates with the most magic and with whom I enjoyed playing the most. Football will miss you and so will we.”
Iniesta said” “I never thought this day would arrive. I never imagined it. All the tears over the last few days are not tears of sadness, though, but of emotion, of pride. They are the tears of that small boy from Fuentealbilla, who dreamed of being a footballer and achieved it through a lot of hard work, sacrifice and never giving up. Those are the essential values in my life. I feel proud of the journey and the people that have accompanied me. I feel happy to have lived a dream.”
