Barcelona star Gerard Piqué ended his football career with a red card.
Gerard Piqué did not make it to the field in the last match of his career. PDO
This is how the four-time Champions League winner ends Gerard Pique couldn’t wait for his football career.
The Catalan duo announced last week that they will be leaving professional football at the start of La Liga’s World Cup break. Last weekend, Barcelona’s own Camp Nou was able to say an emotional farewell to its favorite.
However, Piqué wanted to help his team in the last away game against Osasuna.
Help stopped halfway. The head coach Xavi had named Piqué as a substitute, but he never made it to the field.
The reason was that the referee Jesus Gil had driven in the opening period Robert Lewandowski from the field. In addition, the Barça camp had seen the error of the Osasuna player Marcos Alonso against just before the home team’s opening goal.
Piqué immediately took to the field when Gil blew the whistle to end the opening period. The defender wanted the referee to explain the controversial decisions with that consequence.
However, Gil made it clear that he did not want to discuss the matter. Piqué was not satisfied with this and chased the referee into the locker room corridor, with the result that he showed the superstar who was ending his career a red card.
Record holder
It’s not even the first time that Piqué gets a red card from Gili even though he’s not even on the field. Tuesday’s career-ending run is historic as it puts the defender at the top of FC Barcelona’s stats together by Hristo Stoichkov with (11 reds for both).
And if you count only the cards collected in La Liga, Piqué now shares the number one spot with both Stoichkov and the Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s with (all eight outs).
In the second period in Pamplona, Barcelona came close to a 2–1 away win Peter’s and Raph with goals. At the same time, it increased its La Liga lead over Real Madrid.