The ao year old revealed his decision at an emotional press conference on tuesday. Iniesta is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in history, scoring the winning goal in the 2010 world cup final, as well as being part of the spanish side that won the european championship in 2008 and 2012. He also won 29 trophies at barcelona in a 22 year career, before spending time injapan and the uae. Translation: i hope you ll allow me to get emotional. | i never thought this day would arrive. Truly, i never imagined it. But all these tears we ve shed during the past days aren t tears of sadness but are tears of emotion and pride. Well, earlier i spoke to spanish football journalist ernest macia, who explained why iniesta mightjust be the country s greatest footballer of all time. The fact that with his tiny body he has been able to control the entire midfield of fc barcelona, they made a perfect partner and there s not been a better midfield of course in fc barcelona s history and they
Translation: i hope you ll allow me to get emotional. | i never thought this day would arrive. Truly, i never imagined it. But all these tears we ve shed during the past days aren t tears of sadness but are tears of emotion and pride. Well, earlier, ispoke to spanish football journalist ernest macia who explained why iniesta mightjust be the country s greatest footballer of all time. The fact that with his tiny body he has been able to control the entire midfield of fc barcelona, they made a perfect partner and there s not been a better midfield of course in fc barcelona s history and they made the perfect cover for when lionel messi. His approach to football is extremely wise, his technicality, it s exceptional and notjust as a passer but also offensively. He s been seen more like a player who distributes and controls that midfield but hejust had more attacking projection. Probably this is what makes a big difference. And where do you think he ranks in terms of spanish football grea
a very warm welcome to the programme. i m sally bundock. we start here in the uk. allies of the former uk prime minister, borisjohnson, have condemned the cabinet office for releasing details about possible covid lockdown breaches to scotland yard and thames valley police. lawyers preparing the government s case ahead of the public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic have sent the police information about meetings held at downing street and the prime minister s country retreat, chequers. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement. his team says. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more details. there is no investigation. what has happened here is that the lawyer through borisjohnson lawyer through boris johnson cosmic ministerial diary from the time of the pandemic in the process of preparing evidence for a forthcoming public enquiry which will examine th
wild celebrations across the country as england secure their first major football trophy since the 1966 men s world cup. and i m lewis vaughanjones the other headlines this hour: a lithuanian man has been charged with murdering a nine year old girl who was found stabbed in the street in boston, lincolnshire. the office of the prince of wales has insisted that all rules were followed when the prince s charitable fund took a donation of a millon pounds from the bin laden family of saudi arabia. the chair of the public inquiry investigating the post office scandal has called for the process of compensation for victims to be sped up. good evening and welcome to wembley. well, they ve done it. england s lionesses have beaten germany to win euro 2022 the first major international trophy either the men s or women s national teams have landed for more than half a century. they won 2 1 but they needed extra time to do it. it took them an hour to open the scoring substitute ell
Smart and criticising benjamin netanyahu. Both of which it the moment dont wend him any support dont win. Hes probably trying to calibrate his words a little bit. Katty kay, thanks very much for that analysis. As we continue to watch the concluded, that trip from joe biden. He spent eight hours on the ground. Hes now in the air on Air Force One heading back to washington. Katie kicked katty kay without assessment. Youre watching bbc news. Lets tune. President biden warns israel not to act on raids. Israel and hamas blame each Otherfor The To Act on raids. Israel and hamas blame each other for the blast that killed hundreds. The white house says israel was not responsible. On fire the massive loss of life triggers protests about the embassy in beirut gunfire. We will have more on all of those mean stories. Why dont we pause for a few minutes and catch up with a busy sportsday. Mimi is there for us. Good evening. Thank you very much, matthew. New zealand continued their winning run at th