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OFFICIAL! Sergio Busquets announces his withdrawal from the national team

Published New:16/12/2022 - 13:17h

Updated New:16/12/2022 - 17:37h

Sergio Busquets, captain of Barça and Spain, has publicly revealed through the Royal Spanish Football Federation that he will not continue in the team for the future

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Sergio Busquets, one of the most important footballers in the history of the balompié Spanish, has desvelado publicly that will step to the side and will not continue defending the elastic of the selection of face to the future. The captain will hang the boots with Spain after more 15 years and to have it won everything to international level.

Like this it has it desvelado the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF) through his social networks. "A myth that already is a legend. Sergio Busquets sacks of the selection of Spain after winning it everything. Champion of the World-wide of 2010 and of the Eurocopa of 2012. 143 international times. Thank you, 'Busi'!", it aimed the account of 'Twitter' of the Federation.

His go through the selection began in the victory (1-2) to domicile of Spain in front of Turkey in 2009, when hardly it had 20 years of age and was way to contest his first World-wide in South Africa of the hand of Vicente of the Forest. 'The Red' topped champion for the first time in his history and 'Busi' attained to step the terrain of game in each one of the seven meetings of the tournament.

In his list of winners also finds the Eurocopa of the 2012, being indisputable headline of a medullary that enjoyed of Barcelona talent with Xavi Hernández and Andrés Iniesta in command. The '5' contested the 6 parties and was chosen inside the eleven ideal of the championship thanks to his versatility and good handle of the spherical, what contributed confidence and order in the Spanish possession.

The words of Luis Rubiales

The president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, has left some words in the official communiqué in which elogia and appreciates the step of Busquets by the selection. "Sergio Busquets is an iconic figure in the Spanish football, an exemplary sportsman, a professional intachable and an indisputable leader. I know to Sergio and to his family since he were 11 years old when I shared changing room with his father in the Lleida. It joins me a big become friends with his parents and in occasions the heart can subtract objectivity to my words: neither I pretend it, Sergio is a player that goes to trascend generations by his immense legated", concluded.