On June 16, 2010, 10 years ago today, nothing suspected that Spain would end up conquering the sky in South Africa. Gerard Piqué's eyebrow was one of the victims of that crooked World Cup debut. The initial defeat against Switzerland (0-1), in Durban, did not bode well. Although sometimes, as it happened then, the best is always yet to come. In an interview with the newspaper L'Esportiu, the Barça central defender remembers the details of those magical days, when, yes, he did not stop putting on bandaids.

"In the first game they open my eyebrow, in the second, my lip, and after two days, in training, they hit me in the mouth and open my lip again. I remember Vicente del Bosque saying: "But what bad luck this boy has." But yes: I broke my face for Spain. Long live the King! Apa, you already have the headline, "he proclaims with humor before his interviewer.

That defeat upset part of the initial plans, but the national team had time to amend the matter. "The truth is that it was a hard blow to lose a game like that, but we recovered soon. In a World Cup you can't have a bad day and we played that game well, we dominated and in the first one they had, a stupid rebound and goal", remember.

A young Piqué, who had only been at Barça for two seasons, shared the center of that rear with Puyol , while Sergio Ramos was exercising on the right side. "I was literally a rookie, I was 22 years old, I had just arrived and my only goal was to have a great time. And I really enjoyed it. It was very good," recalls the center back.

Shakira and the celebration party

At that time, Guardiola's Barça dominated in Spain and only Inter de Mourinho was able to separate him from his second Champions League final in a row. Seven of the 23 chosen were from the Barça club. However, Piqué remembers everyone's role. "We were many. It would be unfair to ignore Iker, Sergio Ramos, Villa ... What we did not have was a great star. That team is the best example that above a crack there is always the team," says Piqué, who does not forget the party after the title: "I had a great time".

To his sporting success, he also added the staff. Thanks to that World Cup in South Africa, he ended up meeting Shakira . "I won the biggest title that one can get and I knew the love of my life. I left South Africa being a different person and had an unforgettable experience. I met Shakira in Madrid before going to the World Cup and the first day I told her that we We would meet in the final, I was always brave. She sang the World Cup anthem at the ceremony and I took it for granted that we would play that game. And we got to the World Cup and started losing the first game.

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