Gareth Bale’s announcement on social media that he is retiring from football has sparked a wave of goodbyes, with almost all of the five major leagues attached to the legendary player. Indeed, when you see a five-time European champion ending his career, it is hard not to think that it is a loss for all involved in football. Premier League table,But what makes it even sadder is that Bale is not the only football superstar to have taken a permanent break from his career over the past year or so.
On December 15, 2021, Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero announced his retirement. The star, who was still in his early years, suddenly announced his retirement in the middle of the season because of an irreversible heart disease, which finally made such a decision. After a career that saw him rise to prominence at La Liga giants Atletico Madrid, become a star at the Blue Moon with Manchester City, and when he arrived at Barca with the promise of another glorious career, that damned illness caught up with him. It is a permanent regret for fans that Aguero did not win the World Cup as a player.
Less than a year later, Aguero’s compatriot and international teammate Gonzalo Higuain also announced his retirement, and the talented striker, who had left the top five leagues early, retired from the world after playing his last competitive game with Miami International. Sadly, Higuain also did not have a glorious farewell to the national team, and on the same day he retired, is also the same age Benzema won the Ballon d ‘Or day of the big day, once contenders for the position, now so wide, it is a sigh of change ah.
It was also October that Ribery, who had held up the German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich’s wing attack for decades, also announced his farewell to his brilliant career. The nine-time German Bundesliga champion member, a Champions League member and the legend who had helped the French national team win the World Cup runner-up, waved his sleeve and turned his back from now on, no longer nostalgic for the red glory and love. But he and Arjen Robben formed a team that will always be remembered in football history.
Gonzalo Higuain’s retirement came just a month after Barcelona centre-back Gerard Pique’s sudden retirement. In the last few years of his career, he was under so much pressure and criticism that Barcelona, in order to save cap space and ease financial pressure, were constantly pressuring him to follow through on his promise to leave the club. With his marriage to Shakira at the end of his career, Pique has been blamed for ruining his marriage, which may be one of the reasons for his sudden retirement.
In fact, in the past year or so, Argentina’s Carlos Tevez, Arsenal’s former prince Wilshere, Arsenal’s captain Koscielny, West Ham United veteran Noble, the eternal veteran Aleksandar Kolarov and so on, it would be a long list. They came, they stayed, they left. From then on, our youth is no longer! When we see these familiar names in the future, how will the heart be touched? Just want to say, long live youth! Long live football!