“Must be realistic”
Bojan Krkic announced the end of his career at the age of 32. The Spaniard made 163 games for FC Barcelona, only eleven for Mainz 05. The former attacker had the Rheinhessen jersey very prominently behind him in the picture when he stood on a small stage on which the outfits of all his stations were hung. gave a short speech. He spoke to his mother, reviewed his career and then made the decision, he said at the event shown by “Barça TV”..
Krkic, Özil, Bale & Co.: These players ended their professional careers in 2023
Mesut Özil (Last club: Basaksehir)
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On Özil’s performance data – most games for: Arsenal FC (254); highest market value: 50 million euros
Gallery as of March 23, 2023
Bojan Krkic (Last club: Vissel Kobe)
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On Krkic’s performance data – most games for: FC Barcelona (163); highest market value: 15 million euros
Diego Contento (Last club: SV Sandhausen)
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Regarding Contento’s performance data – most games for: Girondins Bordeaux (94); highest market value: 3 million euros
Lucas Leiva (Last club: Gremio Porto Alegre)
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On Leiva’s performance data – most games for: Liverpool FC (356); highest market value: 17 million euros
Fin Bartels (Last club: Holstein Kiel)
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Bartel’s performance data – most games for: Werder Bremen (131); highest market value: 3.75 million euros – end of career in summer
Emmanuel Adebayor (Last club: AC Semassi FC)
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On Adebayor’s performance data – most games for: Arsenal (142); highest market value: 25 million euros
Eljero Elia (Last club: ADO Den Haag)
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Regarding Elias’ performance data – most games for: Basaksehir FK (86); highest market value: 17 million euros
Fernando Llorente (Last club: SD Eibar)
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Go to Llorente’s performance data – most games for: Athletic Bilbao (332); highest market value: 30 million euros
Florian Jungwirth (Last club: Vancouver Whitecaps)
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On Jungwirth’s performance data – most games for: San Jose Earthquakes (131); highest market value: 1.5 million euros
Konstantinos Mitroglou (Last club: Aris Saloniki)
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On Mitroglou’s performance data – most games for: Olympiacos Piraeus (186); highest market value: 12 million euros
Miranda (Last club: FC Sao Paulo)
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On Miranda’s performance data – most games for: FC Sao Paulo (238); highest market value: 22 million euros
Gareth Bale (Last club: Los Angeles FC)
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On Bale’s performance data – most games for: Real Madrid (258); highest market value: 90 million euros
Christian Fuchs (Last club: Charlotte FC)
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Fuchs’ performance data – most games for: SV Mattersburg (155); highest market value: 7.5 million euros
He felt a great gratitude towards FC Barcelona, where Krkic came to as a 9-year-old, but had to “be realistic”. For a long time he had had the feeling that the moment had come to hang up his shoes. In 2007, the native Catalonian with Serbian roots made the leap to becoming a professional at FCB. Four strong years followed and a €12m move to AS Roma, from where he returned to Barça two years and a loan to Milan later for roughly the same amount.
Krkic only stayed in Mainz briefly in the 2016/17 season, on loan from Stoke City, because the “zero fives” “didn’t have the opportunity to present a purchase option”, said Rouven Schröder, the FSV official at the time. Eleven appearances with one goal and one assist jumped out at the Bundesliga club, the fewest in all of its nine professional clubs. Most recently, the two-time Champions League winner has been on the ball with Andrés Iniesta’s Vissel Kobe club in Japan since 2021.
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