Aritz Aduriz knew nothing of what Athletic had prepared for him. It was he who asked to say goodbye at a press conference like those of a lifetime, within what fits, and the club responded to his wishes, organizing the greatest tribute that the circumstances that we live allow. The first press conference of Spanish sport since the Alarm State began was a mass bath in San Mamés, the temple that Aduriz so honored. Accompanied by his wife and two daughters, he left the locker room area and crossed a corridor of applause from his teammates and the club's technicians until he reached the exact point where he scored his last goal, that Chilean against Barcelona with the that started this League.
"All this surpasses me, I am overwhelmed, I am not able to return everything received these days. I would have liked to leave with less noise, I had asked the club to do something as simple as possible. If this was simple ..." he said later, as always taking importance away, despite being the sixth top scorer in Athletic history, despite the enormous legacy he leaves now that, at 39 years and three months, he is forced to retire immediately: "The body has a limit "
The need to have hip surgery for an implant, something he plans to do on Saturday next week, has precipitated goodbye. "The confinement, being at home for so long, has been totally final. He had been fighting the fight for a long time, it has never been a balanced fight, but until now he could bear it to help, more or less, the team. In the end the balance has been unbalanced, "he explained.
The postponement of the Cup final has made it easier to say goodbye now, but it was also not clear to Aduriz to be able to play it if it was finally held this summer. "I think I could not have. As much as you want, there is always a limit. And I think it is better that I am not there, I know that the team is better without me being right now," he said, in a sincere statement that allows Be aware of how much physical problems have weighed you down in recent months.
Maintaining his composure, only excited when he remembered his last goal and that his two daughters, Iara and Noa , were able to enjoy it from the stands, Aduriz reviewed his career. When choosing a game, he has kept the two that gave Athletic the 2015 Super Cup , in which the striker from San Sebastian scored four goals. And he leaves, of course, with a "thorn", the possibility of fighting to remove the Barge. "I do not need a hole in it, only to get it out. The important thing is that, we will celebrate it," he said.
And at the end, by way of closing, a review of the legacy that he is going to leave: "The most important thing is that we must never give up, we fall a lot of times, but we must get up and keep trying. The greatest teaching that I can leave is perseverance and perseverance, that they see that despite things not going well at some point, you can always improve. "
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