De la Bella hangs up her boots: “Thank you, football”

alberto de la bella (Santa Coloma de Gramanet, 1985), has announced that he is hanging up his boots after almost fifteen years as a professional. At 36 years old and as a player for Cartagena, in the Second Division, the ex-realist left-back says goodbye with a two-minute video in which he thanks everyone who has accompanied him in his career, with numerous images of his time as txuri urdin. The Catalan left a great memory among the royalist parish for being one of the heroes of the 2010 rise and for his professionalism during the decade in which he played for the Gipuzkoan squad, with a loan to the Greek Olympiakos in the middle. “Thank you, soccer”, is the holder of the document and the expression that repeats in it.

“I didn’t dream of that much when I was a kid,” he says. of the beautiful, which adds: “I open my eyes to face a new challenge with experience, enthusiasm and new goals”. Perhaps these new challenges are located near Zubieta. And it is that when he was marked from the txuri urdin squad, the president Jokin Aperribay He offered him a position in the txuri urdin technical staff when he retired. of the beautifulthe object of a tribute at Anoeta in 2019, played 219 official matches, with eight goals and 16 assists.