Andrés Iniesta leaves the world of football. Or at least that is what one senses when watching the video that the La Mancha player has published on his social networks, together with the artist Tvboy, in which he appears painting a mural of Iniesta where you can read “welcome to my future” and a date: 8-10-2024. That would be the designated day on which Andrés Iniesta will hang up his boots.
According to various media reports such as the newspaper Brand or the diary SportOn the 8th Iniesta will attend a meeting in Barcelona where he will announce his future plans.
Andrés Iniesta made his debut as a professional footballer with FC Barcelona on October 29, 2002 in a Champions League match against Bruges led by Louis Van Gaal. And at 40 years old, he would put an end to a career full of success at the Emirates Club.
Throughout his career as a footballer, Iniesta has won 38 titles, 32 with Barça, 3 with Vissel Kobe and 3 with the Spanish team. With Barcelona he has won all possible titles, including 4 Champions Leagues and 9 Leagues, and for 16 years he was the brain of a historic team that amazed the world with its football and won a sextet and a treble.
In these more than 20 years of career, Iniesta has played 832 games in which he has scored 88 goals and distributed a total of 166 assists.
And with the Spanish team he was part of that golden generation that won two European Championships and a World Cup in 2010, being the hero of the final by scoring the only goal of the game. In addition, he was international with the senior team on 131 occasions, scoring 13 goals and distributing 29 assists.
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