He announced Thursday that he will end his career as a professional footballer at the end of the current MLS season with Inter Miami at the end of the year. “These will be my last months on the field. “I feel that the time has come to say goodbye to my career as a professional footballer. They have been almost 20 years enjoying this incredible story that I always dreamed,” he added in the publication. In this sense, the midfielder reported how football has given him “unique experiences, in wonderful places, along with the best travel companions.”
Busquets militated 15 seasons in the first team, getting to wear Captain’s bracelet. Badia del Vallès (Barcelona) is the third player who has played the most official matches with Barcelona – about 700 – only behind Messi and Xavi. “Thanks to the Football Club Barcelona, the club of my life, there I fulfilled the dreams I had as a child, I wore the shirt I loved in hundreds of games, I celebrated many titles and lived unique moments in the Camp Nou that I will never forget,” he said.
The footballer arrived at the first team of Fútbol Club Barcelona in the 2008-09 season, with 20 years, by the then Blaugrana coach, Josep Guardiola. It was a key piece of the best Barça in history with Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernández or Andrés Iniesta, among others. Three European glasses, nine leagues, seven Cups del Rey, three club World Cups and three European Super Cups, in addition to other titles are included in its record. In addition, with the Spanish soccer team, Busquets won the 2010 World Cup and the 2012 Eurocup. “It was an honor to represent her so many times,” he said.
After those 15 seasons at the Camp Nou, Busquets undertook in 2023 the adventure of the MLS with the Inter Miami of David Beckham, where he has shared costumes with Messi and Jordi Alba, his inseparable companions in Barcelona. In Miami, he has been the undisputed holder, first under the orders of Gerardo Martino and now by Javier Mascherano, both with Barcelona past.
Inter Miami has five regular phase games left before the start of the playoff to the title. The MLS final, to get to dispute it, would be December 6. “The team now expects its contribution in the final stretch of the campaign, in which it will end an extraordinary career in which it conquered numerous titles and recognitions, winning a place among the best midfielders in the history of football,” Inter.
