Although Marek Hamšík concluded his successful career in June 2023 in a match in Lichtenstein, he wrote a symbolic dot on Saturday in the Brick Field. The Slovak football player finally said goodbye to the active effect on green lawns and even Alongside his sons Lucas and Christian, with whom he played.
The action called Punto 17 attracted almost 20,000 spectators to the stadium in Bratislava And they could admire the art of Hamšík teammates from Martin Škrtel, Ján Ďurica, Stanislav Lobotka, Adam Nemc, Miroslav Karhan, Martin Dúbravka and others. Compared to stood a team composed of his former teammates from foreign activities. The fans introduced themselves to Jose Callejon, Bleri Džemaili, or Dries Mertens, but lacked Ezequiel Lavezzi, or Edinson Cavani, both eventually canceled the participation.
During his rich career, Hamšík wore jerseys of Slovan Bratislava, Brescie Calcio, SSC Naples, Ta-Lien I-Fang, IFK Gothenburg and Trabzonspor. He was the captain of the national team and the icon of Naples, where he enrolled in history when he broke the goal record of the legendary Diego Maradon (121 goals). He later surpassed Lorenzo Insigne (122) and Mertens (148). The “Partenopei” recorder also introduced himself in Bratislava.
Thirty -seven -year -old midfielder He was part of the Slovak national team at the only World Cup in 2010 in South Africa and three European Championships (2016, 2020, 2024). He has already worked as assistant coach Francesco Calzon at the last championship in Germany. He made his first farewell on November 20, 2022, when he last wore the national team in the preparatory match against Chile (0: 0). After that, he briefly helped the representation in the qualification at the European Championship 2024. His last two national matches were victories over Iceland 2: 1 and Liechtenstein 1: 0.
Farewell match Punto 17:
Slovenia team – team World 4: 5 (2: 2)
Goals: 4. Nemec, 39. M. Hamšík, 71 Jendrišek, 76. Pekarík – 17. And 81. Larsson, 7. Callejon, 84. M. Hamšík, 89. Di Biaggio
Essentials:
Team Slovakia: Dúbravka, Mucha – Škrtel, Škriniar, Ďurica, Hubočan, Pekarík, Karhan, Weiss, Duda, M. Hamšík, L. Hamšík, Kopúnek, Mak, Jendrišek, Lobotka, Nemec. Coach: Vladimír Weiss.
Team the world: De Sanctis, Cakir – Maggio, Gargano, Callejon, di Biaggio, Cannavaro, Santacroce, Mertens, M. Hamšík, Ch. Hamšík, Larsson, Džemaili, Inler, Onur. Coach: Abdullah Avci.
Although without the biggest stars of Cavani and Lavezzi, whose participation of the former representative announced after the announcement of farewell match, the audience was not bored. Many of them came from Naples, who completed the atmosphere at the stadium. In the first half they applauded several events, especially in the 39th minute, when Lucas Hamšík kicked the corner if his father got the bounced ball. The ball ended up in the net and all the players on the desktop jumped on the scorer.
After the change of sides, only Lucas remained in the white jersey, and the blue legend dressed together with the second son of Christian. And it was the former captain of the Slovak national team, who at 84 a minute equalized to 4: 4. The final score finally closed a minute before the end of Di Biaggio.
