Spanish footballing legend andres iniesta has announced his retirement from football. The a0 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 motional. I never thought this day would arrive. Truly, i never imagined it. But all these tears we ve shed during the past days it are 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
Fanning the flames. What can the government do? we talked again about the issues china is facing. Short of these stimulus packages, we don t know a great deal about where the money is being spent. Would you be looking for in order to try and turn this future is around? one of the big issues is the banking system is huge in china, it is loaded with bad debts. It s been forced to lend to bad projects for so long so the first thing to do is rescue the banks of this is something that the fed did after the financial crisis. Instead of giving them more money to lend and using that money to set up a fund, buy from them all of the bad assets and let them go back to a clean balance sheet and start over. The government can hold this bad debt, bad property investments for a very long time but the banks need to have better capital to start lending again and you need to stop forcing them to lend only to state owned enterprises which are not profitable and bad projects, bad infrastructure projects w
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
What makes him so different was he was what makes him so different was he was considered a Mere Mortah he was considered a Mere Mortah a he was considered a mere mortal. A man was described as not the mortal. A man was described as not the most handsome or talented but he won his place in italian talented but he won his place in italian hearts for all that he did in italian hearts for all that he did in in italian hearts for all that he did in 1990 and those magical nights in the World Cup magical nights in the World Cup he magical nights in the World Cup. He wasjust a man who always cup. He wasjust a man who always lived four goals. He fought always lived four goals. He fought so hard to score each one Manchester City begin their Champions League Campaign later when italian champions Inter Milan visit the etihad. Midfielder rodri says players are close to going on strike in protest due to the increase in games. Along with the larger Champions League, city will play in the expanded clu
This is bbc news. The headlines in breaking news, there are reports at least two more Communication Devices used by hezbollah have detonated across lebanons south in the southern suburbs of beirut. It comes after 12 were killed and thousands more injured following the synchronised explosions of Hezbollah Pagers across lebanon on tuesday. Hezbollah blames israel for the attacks and vows to retaliate. Here at bbc verify we have been looking here at bbc verify we have been looking at here at bbc verify we have been looking at the chain of companies involved in the Supoly Companies involved in the supply of the pages which reportedly exploded in lebanon yesterday. Still reeling from an economic and political crisis, Sri Lanka prepares to hold pivotal elections. Somalia, one of the worlds poorest countries, is being hit hard by Climate Change and conflict. Well be speaking to the International Committee Of The Red Cross for more on this. More on all of Those Stories In ust more on all of Th