This Saturday, November 5, Gerard Piqué will play his last game at the Camp Nou. The Barça central defender, one of the players who has won the most titles with Barça, has announced his imminent goodbye to Barça at the age of 35.
He has done so in an emotional video that he has shared on social networks, in which you can see several images of the footballer wearing the Barça shirt, both in the club's youth categories and during his 15 seasons in the Barça first team.
The news of Piqué's goodbye has been an absolute surprise. For this reason, there have been many who have spoken on social networks to fire a true Barça legend.
Without going any further, FC Barcelona. The Barça entity has shared on its social networks the video of Piqué in which he announces his goodbye, as well as a photo of the defender kissing the Barça shield after scoring a goal and a message recalling all the titles that the footballer has won with the club : 30.
Surely, the most outstanding reaction has been that of Carles Puyol. Considered by many to be Piqué's teacher, the former Barça player has assured in networks that he was "in shock" after hearing the news and that "it has been very unfair" with the Catalan center-back, since "few have defended the Barça shirt" as Pique has done.
Another ex-soccer player who has spoken before Piqué's goodbye has been Fernando Hierro. The current sports director of Chivas de Guadalajara has assured EFE that the Catalan's farewell is "a great loss" since he has given Spanish football "an outrage" as he is a "world-class" player.
For their part, several footballers and ex-footballers have commented on Gerard Piqué's own publication on Instagram. Among them, Ivan Rakitic, Rafinha, Claudio Bravo, Ansu Fati, Sergiño Dest, Claudio Bravo, Javier Mascherano, Joaquín, Tonni Duggan, Edgar Davids and Fabio Cannavaro, among many.
In parallel, the president of Barcelona, Joan Laporta, said in statements to Barça TV shortly after hearing the news that Piqué "is part of the shield" of the Barça club and that "it will always be a reference".
The club's chief executive has also admitted that "in recent months" he had spoken with the center-back about the "possibility" of retirement, although, "because of who he is", the club decided to "leave this in the player's hands" decision.
It will be this Saturday, starting at 9:00 p.m. and against Almería, when the Catalan defender will bid farewell to the Camp Nou forever as a Barça footballer.
