A former FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich star has retired from football, as exclusively reported by the transfer portal Fabrizio Romano, citing anonymous sources.
“Thiago Alcántara has to retire from professional football. The former Barça, Bayern, Liverpool and Spain player has made his decision,” Romano tweeted.
“Thiago’s hobby and love for the game continues, as he is in the position of a new football bankruptcy after a few months of planning,” added the Italian.
Thiago was born in Italy to Brazilian parents, his father Mazinho won the 1994 World Cup with the Selecao.
After passing through Flamengo’s academy in Rio de Janeiro, the last of which he held the position from 2001 to 2005, he joined Barca’s outstanding La Masia created in the latter of those years.
Pep Guardiola passed Thiago on to make his debut with the first team in May 2009, when he came on in the 74th minute of a La Liga clash against RCD Mallorca with the title already won.
With another hundred appearances over the next four seasons, the fledgling Thiago later revealed to BT Sport that he left Barca because he “played with a lot of legends” and “struggled to play as many minutes as he wanted”.
For a small payment of 21. 7 million dollars (20 million euros), he fled to Bayern Munich in 2013 on a four-year contract and discovered his payment in Bavaria, where he is a club legend and seven-time king of the Bundesliga.
After winning his second Champions League winner’s medal in Lisbon in the summer of 2020 and playing a key role in the 8-2 thrashing of former club Barça in the quarter-finals, Thiago took on a new challenge in England, where He signed for Liverpool.
Injuries meant he was only able to make 98 appearances for the Reds in 4 spells, which, as explained, is less than he had controlled in the same era before leaving the Blaugrana as a youngster.
The Premier League giants revealed in May that Thiago would leave at the end of the 2023/2024 campaign, and now, at 33 years old, the former Spanish foreigner has to finish a brilliant career as Romano reported and showed through Thiago’s team. Josué Seixas.
Thiago can do so with his head held high, a figure widely regarded as one of the midfielders of his generation.
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