MADRID, 6 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Former FC Barcelona player Gerard Piqué valued his life this morning after leaving professional football, something he misses “zero”, since it is a stage that “has passed”, now focused on other business projects, such as the ‘ Kings League’, at the same time that he assured that his former team is “in survival mode, but without ruling out titles”.
“I miss football zero. It’s a stage of my life that has passed. When you make the decision to leave, you take it, in this I am very cold. Looking back is of little use to me. It went incredibly well, better than usual. expected. I’m very proud of what I’ve experienced. I wouldn’t have dreamed it would have turned out so well, but staying in the past would be a mistake,” Piqué declared in an interview with ‘El Larguero’ on Cadena SER.
Regarding his former team, Piqué shows “some concern”, since the economic situation “is not the best”, but he believes that they are “in good hands”, with a president and a board that “know what they are doing”. “We are in survival mode, but without ruling out the titles. You have to keep winning. History pushes you to compete every year and win cups, although financially you are not completely competitive,” he assessed.
With the club he left “everything fixed” when he left, and now they owe him “nothing”, but he does not believe that they have “forgiven” him, since despite “having signed” for another year and a half, he did not play. “The decision to leave was mine. It didn’t make sense to ask for anything, because I received what I deserved while I played,” he explained.
Regarding Real Madrid, Piqué always understood that it was a rivalry in which “everything was going for him” as a player, and it is something that he “always” lived and transmitted. “From the outside I still hope that he always loses, but I am not up to date to assess if he does things well or badly, if he is a favorite or not,” he argued.
On the return of Leo Messi, which ultimately did not materialize, to Barça, the ex-soccer player pointed out that, on an economic level, the “most natural” decision for the Argentine was the US market. “In Miami there are a lot of Latinos, they He speaks a lot of Spanish and the adaptation will be easy for him”, he analyzed.
The great project of the Barcelonan is the Kings League, which he believes will end up “involving parents and grandparents”, since despite “everything is reduced to putting the ball inside the goal”. “It will end up reaching generations between the ages of 40 and 60 who have not heard of the product right now,” he said.
“We are a different product and we have distanced ourselves from football. We do not even want to compare ourselves with football. We neither can nor want to, we are two totally different realities,” he said.
His next goal is to expand the Kings League, creating between eight and ten leagues worldwide that end up coming together at the end of the season to play in international competition. “In Spain we have outgrown even the pavilion in which we play, we fill it only with invitations,” he repeated.
Finally, the former player valued the whistles he has received during his career, asking people to “express what they want”. “I’ve always liked being whistled, because the most screwed up thing in life is indifference. That you go into a place and people don’t know anything,” he concluded.