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
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
Downpours and thunderstorms pushing northwards and eastwards across england and wales. Weve also had this band of Rain Across Southern and Central Scotland and Northern Ireland. That will weaken overnight. The showers will move eastwards in the south but still with the chance of localised Flooding And Transport disruption. Itll start to turn cold as the night wears on in the north of scotland. Northerly winds digging in here. Tomorrow, our area of low pressure still with us. This is the deep low running to the south of us. That is a former hurricane kirk. All of these different areas of low pressure will be moving eastwards over the next couple of days, taking the rain away eastwards too and bringing in this northerly wind. Tomorrow for many, cloud, pieces of rain, the showers in the South Shouldnt be as numerous or as heavy as they have been today, but that cold air starts to dig in. Nine. In a way and aberdeen, those are the afternoon highs. Looking at the Ms Chart as we head into th
To get their campaign up and running in style. Making their debut in the competition, a tough lesson for slovan, who lost 5 1 in glasgow. It s the first time celtic have won their opening champions league game and, as it stands, only bayern munich are ahead of them in the new format table. The competition stops now, we ve played bayern munich in the final. But no, it was a great night for everyone. I thought you just sensed it before the game, the feeling in the crowd. But i m so proud of the team, the intensity with which we played for the ball was so good. And yeah, it was a great night. We know our next three games are really tough games but they re really exciting games for us. But i thought tonight, we had to make a really good start in the competition, and i think we made a fantastic start with three points on the board, so it s a back to back win at this level from the end of last season or the last game against feyenoord, so it s important steps for us moving forward. Engla