After 19 seasons at the club, 18 as a player and one as a coach, she parted ways with the team of her life to “face new professional challenges”
“As I said the day I announced my retirement: Melanie is Barça and Barça is Melanie. Always culer”, he wrote on Instagram
On May 13, 2022, Melanie Serrano announced her retirement as a footballer after 18 years at FC Barcelona, who has become the player who has stayed with the club the longest. A true legend. A living myth.
“When you see that you don’t contribute to the team what you want to contribute and you don’t help the club to give the necessary level, you look for other ways. The time has come to put an end to a stage and open a new one with other motivations, but always linked to the team”he reflected that day.
From then on, a new stage began within the club as a coach at Infantil D, with whom she won the league in her debut on the bench. A year later, however, Melanie has thought that it is time to face new challenges.
“There are moments that you would like never to come, but when they do come, you have to face them. I want to announce that, after 19 years at FC Barcelona, I am leaving the club of my life to face new professional challenges”the former Barça player has published in a message on her Instagram account accompanied by a photograph in which she kisses the Barça shield.
“There have been 18 seasons as a player and one as a coach in which I have grown as a person and as a professional. I take with me an experience and learning for a lifetime and I would like to thank everyone who has helped me in all this time , in which I have had the enormous privilege of wearing the Barça shirt more than 500 times, winning many titles and seeing the exciting evolution of our sport from the front row. As I said the day I announced my retirement: Melanie is Barça and Barça is Melanie. Always culer “, she has delved into the social network. Thanks to you, Melanie.