On Wednesday, Real Betis honored the memory of its player Miki Roqué on the ninth anniversary of his death at the age of 23, on June 24, 2012, due to bone cancer.
“Nine years since you went to the fourth ring (of the stadium). And there is not a single day in which we do not remember you. You are eternal, Miki Roqué,” said the Verdiblanco club on its Twitter account about its center, that He died just nine years ago in a Barcelona clinic from cancer that forced him to announce his retirement from football in March 2011.
Miki Roqué was born on July 8, 1988 in Tremp (Lleida) and trained in the lower categories of the UE Lleida, but as a youth he was recruited by Liverpool, with whose first team he debuted at the age of 17 in a League match of Champions.
After successive assignments to Oldham Athletic, Xerez and Cartagena, Roqué signed for Betis in 2009 and played for two seasons in the subsidiary, until the then Betis coach, Pepe Mel, made him debut with the first team, in Second, in October 2010.
A few months later, on March 11, 2011, the Catalan defender announced his retirement from football due to a malignant tumor in the pelvis, a disease that he did not overcome.
Since his death, Miki Roqué is remembered in all the matches that Betis plays at the Benito Villamarín stadium in the 26th minute, the number he wore as a Verdiblanco player.