Cesc Fàbregas retires from football after 21 years of career

“After 21 seasons playing professionally, the time has come to hang up my boots…” This is how Cesc Fàbregas said goodbye to football. He has done so in an emotional message on his social networks where he recalled his “first days at Arenys, el Mataró” before joining Barça, a step prior to Arsenal, where he established himself as one of the youngest captains in history. from the English club. Later, he returned to Barça, he returned to the Premier, but with the Chelsea shirt, before trying the French League with Monaco in his last years and ending up in Italian Como.

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“I have lifted the World Cup, two European Championships, won everything in England and Spain and almost all the European trophies,” wrote the former midfielder, who left football at the age of 36. “It has been a journey that is impossible to forget. I have lived experiences that I never thought, not in a million years, that I would come close. I have learned three languages ​​and I can say that this has made me more compassionate and wiser”, added Cesc .

“A new challenge”

He leaves football and undertakes “a new challenge”, as he himself has recognized. “I am happy to announce that I am going to cross the white line and start coaching the B team and Primavera del Como 1907.” He leaves field football to enter the universe of the bench. That is the journey that Cesc now faces.



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