Raúl García pronounces that he’ll retire when the season ends | Soccer | Sports | EUROtoday

With all of the naturalness on the earth, and conscious that his teammates are an important factor for him in his skilled subject, Raúl García (Zizur Mayor, 37 years previous) took benefit of the gymnasium session in Lezama after the match day towards Villarreal to announce to the remainder of the squad, earlier than anybody else, that these might be his final weeks as a footballer. After 9 seasons at Athletic, 4 at Osasuna and 7 at Atlético de Madrid, the playmaker, who had renewed at first of the season for yet one more yr, decides to step apart after 602 video games within the First Division, with 112 objectives , 95 Cup matches with 21 objectives and 115 European competitors matches with 17 objectives.

The present Athletic participant, already with an expiration date, leaves because the third participant with probably the most League video games, behind Andoni Zubizarreta and Joaquín, and after having received a Copa del Rey, a League and a Super Cup with Atlético of Madrid, with which he additionally received the Europa League twice and as many Super Cups, and a Super Cup and a Copa del Rey, the latter only a week in the past, with Athletic. The withdrawal, “did not depend on winning the title or not, but this is a beautiful culmination for my career,” he says in an interview with the membership's media.

The signing of Raúl García by Athletic with the 2015/16 season already began was not with out controversy for the reason that footballer, then of Atlético de Madrid, by no means shied away from any battle, and in San Mamés he had starred in a number of. The workforce was led, as now, by Ernesto Valverde, and in the course of the match that the crimson and white workforce was taking part in in Ipurua towards Eibar, a rumor started to unfold that Raúl's absence from the Atlético squad was because of his imminent signing for the membership. Bilbao workforce. Added to this was that the president on the time, Josu Urrutia, was absent from the field. He was closing the deal that was confirmed that very same night time. Despite reluctance on the a part of the followers, Raúl García started to win over the gang on the day of his debut, through which he scored one of many objectives towards Getafe. For greater than 5 years he shaped a deadly couple with Aduriz.

In the final two seasons, the Navarrese footballer has been shedding prominence as a result of emergence of a brand new crop of footballers, nearly all of them from the quarry, however he has continued to look in key moments, comparable to within the Cup remaining, through which he was answerable for take and rating the primary penalty of the shootout towards Mallorca, a purpose that he celebrated with rage. He himself expressed it in his farewell: “I have given up everything I have had, always thinking about my teammates and the club.” He assures that, “physically I feel good, but it is a mental issue,” as a result of, “the body asks you for changes and now is the ideal time.” And he confesses that, “I have not been athleticzale from birth because I came from Pamplona and I have experienced other things with Osasuna”, but, “I leave with a little bit of heart being from Athletic, because it is true that from within you see the club in a special way. The feeling is in the day to day and that is something that I take with me.” “I want people to feel proud that I have worn this shirt and defended the values ​​of Athletic from day one.”

The crimson and white membership bids farewell to him with an announcement through which it assures that “it is a true honor that a footballer of his enormous category has completed almost a decade with our colors. We are talking about a player who leaves with enormous professional and football recognition, and with the trophy case overflowing.” His earlier groups have additionally echoed the participant's resolution, and thus, Osasuna has indicated on their social networks that “today one of the great talents to come out of Tajonar has announced his retirement. Congratulations on your great career, Raúl!” start at the end of the season.”

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