Jordi Alba He has also decided to put an end to his career as a professional footballer. As your partner will do Sergio Busquetswho announced his decision on September 26, He will hang the boots as soon as the season ends with the Inter de Miami At the end of this year. Thus, in the MLS, he will put the climax to a career as a professional who, after going through The Masia and the Cornellà In his formative stage, he started in the ranks of the Valenciathat also gave it to the Natetic de travagonaand that signed its most successful stage in those of the Barça.
«I feel that the time has come to say goodbye to my career as a professional footballer. It has been almost 20 years enjoying this incredible story that I always dreamed», Said the defense in a video broadcast through its social networks.
«I have made the decision to put an end to my career as a professional footballer at the end of this season. I do it with absolute conviction, with fullness and happiness. Because I feel that I have traveled this path with all possible passion. And that now is the right time to open a new stage and close the previous one with the best of the sensations. Football has given me absolutely everything, ”he insisted a Jordi Alba who wanted to remember all the teams he has passed throughout his long career, among which he includes Atlético Centro Hospitalense,” where everything began “, to a Cornellà who gave him the necessary confidence to grow, to a Nàstic where he matured a valence with which he managed to premiered in the elite.
“Until the last moment”
To Barça, on the other hand, which he defines as the club of his life, thanks him to have allowed him to reach the top of his career and truffle his record with a good handful of titles. There, precisely, he developed a lethal connection with a Leo Messi that he would end up convincing him to begin the one that has finally been the last station of his career as a player in the ranks of an Inter de Miami where he has been able to enjoy, according to Jordi Alba himself “until the last moment.”
And without forgetting, of course, his passage through the Spanish team, with which he is grateful for having been able to be part of his history, and the role they have also had throughout their career their parents, their brother, their wife and their children, who thank them for always having been always by their side.
«Today I close this chapter knowing that I have delivered everything. Football has been, is and will always be an essential part of my life. Thanks football. Thank you for both, ”says the Defense, who has at these same moments with a altogetry palmarés in which a Eurocop of 11 seasons.