The legendary Mexican player that played during good part of his sportive career in the FC Barcelona, Rafa Márquez, has taken the decision to hang the boots after leaving 20 titles in his list of winners, 12 of them obtained with the Barcelona T-shirt.
The 'Kaiser' was a key player for the group culé since it landed in the Barcelona discipline, there by the season 2003-2004 until the 2009-2010, when it left the FC Barcelona to leave to the Major League Soccer (MLS). During this period, won two Champions League, one with Frank Rijkaard in the bench and, the another, under the control of Pep Guardiola.
Now it hangs the boots to his 39 years, after having contested a World-wide of Russia 2018 in which Mexico was able to surpass the phase of groups, remaining in the eighth of final when falling defeated against which was one of the aspiring to the title, Brazil.
One of the ex mates of Márquez in the FC Barcelona, Xavi Hernández, has wanted to command through the social networks a message in which it remembers to the Mexican the successful sportive career that has had, and also the values that has transmitted along the same.
Xavi Hernández ensalza to Rafa Márquez
"Big machine! Enormous example and footprint left in Barcelona! Congratulations by your spectacular career", has written Xavi Hernández, commenting the photography in which Rafa Márquez announced his goodbye definite to the football of elite like player.
Rafa Márquez will have time now to centre in other 'hobbies', although the most likely is that it return sooner or later to the world of the football to exert some another type of work, can that in the directive or technical office of a club, or can even that in the bench like technician.