After Andres Iniesta announced his retirement from professional football, Lionel Messi He dedicated a heartfelt message on social networks to his former teammate in the Barcelona.
The Argentine player expressed: “One of the teammates with the most magic and the ones I enjoyed playing together the most. Andrés Iniesta, the ball is going to miss you and so will all of us. I wish you the best always, you are a phenomenon“.
The “10” and the Spanish midfielder shared a team since Messi’s arrival at Barcelona and until 2018, when the midfielder left the club to join Vissel Kobe in Japan.
The numbers of Messi and Iniesta at Barcelona
Messi and Iniesta were one of the great duos of the Catalan club’s golden era. They disputed 489 games togetherwhere They won 337, tied 96 and were defeated 56 times.
If measured in percentage terms, this duo achieved an effectiveness of one 68.9% victories.
In addition, they achieved multiple titles, in which the four Champions Leagues won.
Andrés Iniesta announced his retirement from football
Andrés Iniesta officially confirmed his retirement from professional football this Monday, through an emotional video on his Instagram account.
In the video, Iniesta himself begins with short and direct: “What is football for him?“. But the answer comes from Luis Enrique, with whom he shared a dressing room when he was very young and later directing him from the bench: “Do you know what it reflects for me? It reflects what we felt when we were children on the street.when your mother called you at night, when we couldn’t see the ball anymore… that’s Andrés Iniesta. He is 40 years old and he is still wondering if he continues, I don’t continue and so on.“.
Later it was Serra Ferrer’s turn: “He is one of the There are few footballers in history that I remember who were a teacher before they were a student. “I had learned everything.”
Pep Guardiola also joined, the man who brought out his best performance during his time at Barcelona and whose impact he valued when the team was adrift: “Having Andrés come and tell you that we are on the right path was a boost of energy, I will always be grateful to him.“.
Finally, Vicente Del Bosque took his turn, the man who trusted him during the 2010 World Cup and the 2014 Euro Cup, especially in South Africa, who bet on him and repaid him by scoring the goal that made us World Champions: “I remember on the field of Espanyol, Barça was winning 1-4,1-5 and came out applauded by the entire field.
Source: Ambito
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