The Spanish goalkeeper Pepe Reina, currently in the ranks of the As Italian, he announced that he will retire at the end of this season, after the game of the last day of this Friday against Inter Milan, where he will end a “very beautiful and very complete” race.
“The one that has been A very beautiful career, a very complete life. I feel fortunate, looking back, of everything I have lived, beyond the teams or the victories, of the people I have met. The doors that remain open, I have learned everything that means a costume, in capital letters, “he said in an interview with Movistar+.
The Madrid, of 42 yearsHe revealed that it was in January when he decided that this would be his last course as a footballer. “I thank God because it has been many years, I did not expect them, I thought that the race was going to last a little less. I think the time has come and I want to close it here and continue linked to football, because that runs here and it will be very difficult to take it off. I have the illusion of starting new projects and exciting myself with other things“He said.
In this way, Reina will close a25 -year career who has taken him by teams such as FC Barcelona (2000-02), Villarreal (2002-05 and 2022-24), Liverpool (2005-14), Naples (2013-14 and 2015-18), Bayern Munich (2014-15), AC Milan (2018-20), Aston Villa (2019-20), Lazio (2020-22) and Like 1907, where Cesc Fàbregas, companion of the Spanish world champion team in 2010.
With 'La Roja', first with Luis Aragonés and then with Vicente del Bosque, he was a fixed and He raised the two Eurocups (2008 and 2012) and the World Cup (2010).
“Last summer I had a bad time Because I did not find a project that would excite me until summer. I had that thorn, because I had things to offer, but Now I'm empty. To football, from this position I can no longer offer you, “he said.