Real Madrid | Gareth Bale announces his retirement from football

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With the Wales knocked out of the World Cupwhere he did not perform at the level expected of him, Gareth Bale (Cardiff, 1989) was signing his epitaph. High-level football was already far away for the attacker, who was hitting in frustration one of the cameras that was working on the match against England. It was the last role for a player who grew and exploded as a great left-back at Tottehnam and who ended up as one of the best wingers in the world, giving Real Madrid afternoons of glory.

By the way, the dissolution. The “Welsh, GolfMadrid, in that order“with which he disregarded the front row, where he accumulated up to 19 titles wearing the Real Madrid shirt, including five Champions League. In the summer of 2020, he ended a white stage that lasted until wear, but where Gareth left great postcards. Like the Chilean goal that allowed the whites to win the 2018 Champions League.

This goal perfectly exemplifies the Bale’s explosive talent. He broke the equalizer against Liverpool shortly after leaving the field of play, taking advantage of a cross from Marcelo. A work born of genius incorrectness that has always shown a shy idol, who barely learned the language in all his years as a madridista.

bale tried to take refuge in the MLS, forming part of Los Angeles FC to extend his career towards the World Cup with which he closed his career. He ended up being the culmination of a successful career, also at the national team level, despite the outcome in Qatar (the first World Cup since 1958). He achieved something unthinkable for football in his country, which was reaching the semifinals of Euro 2016.

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“After careful and thoughtful consideration, I announce my immediate retirement from club and international football. I’m incredibly lucky to have fulfilled my dream: to have practiced the sport that I love. It has given me some of the best moments of my life. There have been 17 seasons at the highest level that will be impossible to repeat, regardless of what the next chapter brings me,” Bale explained in one of the two published statements. The first, with a focus on club football. The second , addressed to Wales.

In the note, the former player has reviewed his career, from his first touch with Sotuhampton to his last with LAFC, going through “play and captain my country 111 times“. In the first communication, Bale says he feels indebted “to many people” for helping him change his life and shape a career that is now over.

A first part of his farewell where the proper names are those of his parents and sister, “because without their dedication in the first days I would not be writing this”, in addition to his wife and children, “because their love and support have sustained me: you inspire me to be better and i’m proud of it“. The first letter ends with his signature and the following message: “Now I move on to the next stage of my life. It is a time of change and transition, an opportunity for a new adventure.”

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But the end of Bale’s career, from which it was even speculated that he would retire at Cardiff City, has been marked by his performance with his team. Hence the extreme dedicated his own goodbye to Wales, much more emotional and direct. “How do I describe what it means to me to be part of this country and team? How do I articulate the impact it has had on my life?” asks a player for whom wearing the Dragons jersey changed his life and personality. .

Bale says he feels lucky to “be Welsh and international, something incomparable with everything I’ve experienced”, which is why he is grateful to have felt “the support and passion of the red wall and to have been together in unexpected and surprising places”. Gareth, who always felt more integrated in the world that his nation gave him , assures that he will not walk away “from the team that lives in me and runs through my veins, after all, the dragon on my shirt is all I need.”



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