Piqué argues his withdrawal: "I was out of place. I would have left earlier"

Nothing ended the night

was honored by the Barcelona fans in his farewell match at the Camp Nou against Almería.

Or the night he hung up, this time the boots, leaving as the last notch an expulsion in the changing room tunnel of El Sadar.

Piqué, who always transcended football, still had to explain himself.

He did it his way, on Twitch, again controlling the story, avoiding journalists, and under the protection of his good friend

.

Piqué did not elaborate too much on the reasons why he decided to stop in November.

Although he did want to make it clear that the main reason he had to do with the role in Barcelona to which he was relegated with

-he did not even name him, he simply called him mister-.

Piqué was seen as the last center-back of the squad, and forced to those night training sessions for supporting actors.

He couldn't stand it.

"People already know that I started the season with a meeting with the coach in which he told me that this year it would be difficult. I wanted to try it because I came from a very good season, playing everything. But the sensations from the beginning of the course did not They were the best. And I saw that the break was an opportunity to make this decision. I always said that when I didn't feel important I would leave it. But the fact that there were injuries in my position made me delay the withdrawal. I would have left earlier".

Deadline

And the former defender continued: "I felt out of place. There was a day when I was about to say 'it's over', when I was training at the Camp Nou [at night]. And I'm a lot of sensations. I didn't quite feel that It was my place. Injured players began to drop and I thought I couldn't let the team down. And I set the World Cup break as the deadline".

Piqué also tried to offer his version of what happened in his last game, when he was sent off by referee

after the center-back took advantage of the break to protest.

"I went to comment on several plays. I only told him that he always harmed us. And he expelled me. I did not insult him at any time. And he pointed to Carlos Naval [the Barcelona delegate] and told him that I was expelled. And he did not send him off! I had said nothing! Then, already expelled, I went into the locker room. And the referee's locker room was right next to it. I went into ours with more teammates who were coming, and there is one who said that phrase... 'I shit on your fucking mother' And the referee must have heard it and put those words in my mouth."

The presidency of Barcelona

Piqué also wanted to move away, at least for now, from that race for the presidency in Barcelona where he had already been placed: "At some point I'm sure I'll feel like it. But right now I don't have it in my head. I want to do many other things One day I would like to help the club of my life. We will see in the future".

Piqué, of course, took advantage of his speech to announce new shows with his gang of

- "in the event that we will present this Thursday I will have a role that I always dreamed of, that of Javier Tebas, but without voting for VOX" -.

And Piqué repeated several times what will become a mantra: "Now I'm free."

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