the welsh footballer Gareth Bale (Cardiff, 1989) announced his retirement from football at the age of 33 after a career dotted with iconic moments that reflected his enormous talent and justified his fame, but leaving the feeling that part of the magic he treasured did not fully emerge. .
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Chiseled in the English Southampton youth academy, he made his debut with the first team on April 17, 2006 at the age of 16, 9 months and one day against Milwall. He later went to Tottenham Hotspur and went from being a shrewd winger to an explosive winger.
With good performances in the 2012-2013 season, the time came when the context required him to look beyond Tottenham and that was when Real Madrid opened the doors to a new dimension, disbursing for it. about 100 million euros.
Physical discomfort conditioned the beginning of his first season at the white club, that of 2013-2014. But then he showed that he could be a key factor in putting together an offensive along with Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, his teammates on the well-remembered ‘BBC’.
The target with which he completed the victory in the 2014 Copa del Rey final against Barcelona (2-1), after a spectacular gallop, remains for history; the header in the Champions League final that same year, played in Lisbon, in which Real Madrid won its tenth trophy against Atlético (4-1), and his performance in the 2018 Champions League final, when he He gave the white team victory with a brace against Liverpool (3-1), scoring one of the goals with a spectacular overhead kick.
Later, with a strange apathy for his sport, Bale began to look towards other horizons. He ended up in soccer in the United States to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy, but his soccer drive only continued to live on for the Wales National Team, in which he broke all records.
In 2016, Bale led Wales to qualify for the first European Championship in their history, in which he also reached the semifinals. On June 6, he helped seal his country’s passage to a soccer World Cup after 64 years. And already in Qatar he was in charge of scoring the first goal, in the match against the United States. Today his retirement letter is signed with the seal of being the nation’s top scorer, with a total of 40 goals in 111 appearances, but also with the note that he could have done more.
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*With AFP
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