Juan Román Riquelme has announced his withdrawal of the professional football. The Argentinian player, ex of the FC Barcelona, has made public it in an interview in ESPN
Riquelme, of 36 years, has played the last six months in Argentinians Juniors, team to the that helped to consummate the return to the First Division. Finally, then , the footballer has decided not accepting the offer that had of the Hill Porteño of Paraguay and hangs definitively the boots. On the reasons of his decision has explained that "after achieving rise with Argentinians Juniors and after thinking it a lot, have taken the decision. I had clear that to follow playing had to have something that motivate me, interest and think that after rising with Argentinians and achieve everything with the T-shirt of Mouth, the best was to communicate that I no longer go to play more. It seems me that it is the best, ensured the thrice champion of the Glass Libertadores with Mouth Juniors and ex player of the FC Barcelona.
Between his extensive path appears a brief go through the Barça. It was in the convulsa season 2002/03, in which it contested 42 parties and marked 6 goals. It began with good foot thanks to a golazo in the official debut in front of the Legia of Warsaw, in the previous phase of the League of Champions. However, to Riquelme cost him find his place in the rigid diagrams of Go Gaal, first, and Antic, afterwards. Never it was indisputable in a team that had a very irregular route in the League and that fell in the quarter-finals of the Champions.
At the end of course produced an important renewal in the staff barcelonista and Juan Román Riquelme would continue his career in the Villarreal, where made history arriving until the semifinals of the maximum continental competition (2006). The international Argentinian went back between 2007 and 2014 to Mouth Juniors, where is legend. In spite of this, his last team has been Argentinian Juniors.
Video - All the goals of Riquelme with the FC Barcelona