Iniesta before the final match: Shia tears, farewell words to farewell

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Just one day before the last game of Iniesta for Barca, the Catalan football team held a ceremony to break the Spanish midfielder. It's just an activity in a long and elaborate program to thank the midfielder who will leave the club after 22 years as a 12-year-old boy. The program is called "Infinite Iniesta", roughly translated as "Iniesta Forever".

Dozens of celebrity football stars have been interviewed to comment on Iniesta. All the best players from Puyol, Pique, Xavi, Messi ..., Pirlo, Rivaldo, Buffon, Totti ... and of course the top strategists, including Pep Guardiola, Jupp Heyncknes and Van Gaal. However, the highest rating was not enough to portray Iniesta's talent.

"Iniesta is the only, the pride for Barca," Xavi said in tears at the gala night farewell to his former teammates. Iniesta is a muse in the world of pragmatic and polite football. Iniesta did not score much goals, even though some of them made their way into history as in the 2010 World Cup final.

Footballing with Iniesta is not about putting the ball in the net, or stealing the ball towards the opponent's goal. Football with him is the ball in his leg, he caresses it and turns every ball into art. With the skill of the rich, Iniesta has been fascinated by so many generations of fans, turning to how many hot stadiums suddenly turned into a melodious concert.

Iniesta is different from the rest is so; He is different from Xavi, other than Messi. Catalunya has always considered him as his own boy, although he has been playing for the first team Barca 16 years. Their feelings for Iniesta in the first team debut against Club Brugge on 29 October 2002 must be the same as in the final game tonight.

See you again!
Andres Iniesta did not get any Golden Ball during his illustrious career. It is a great injustice that the football world has spoken so much over the years. This is the consequence of a too-pragmatic world of football, judging the attacker's talent solely on the basis of goals. However, in the NHM, in the assessment of the teammates, Iniesta not only deserve a Golden Ball.

Samuel Eto'o, one of the guests at the Iniesta Gala, said: "I will not give Andres a Golden Ball, nor two or three, but I will give you a thousand Golden Balls."

Iniesta is an exception in the football world. He is one of the few big stars committed to taking the top career for a club. It has been said that the transfer of Messi and any other star, but never Barcelona fans have to fear losing Iniesta.

Iniesta's decision to break Barca after this season is not because he was out of love with the team, but he did not want to be the burden of the club in the last years of his career. Iniesta left because he wanted to be good for Barca and he promised not to play for a club in Europe.

Iniesta cried at the Barca farewell ceremony yesterday, in the presence of hundreds of people who have been with him, including him, for nearly two decades; from Xavi, Yaya Toure, Thierry Henry, Sergio Ramos, Gianluigi Buffon, Francesco Totti ... or former president Joan Laporta. Iniesta has thanked everyone, from his family to his caretakers at La Masia.

And finally, in the gala of Iniesta, President Josep Bartomeu said: "With Iniesta, Barca have no goodbye, only to meet again"!