Sergio Ramos announced this Thursday, through a letter on his social networks, that he will not play again with the Spanish team.
"The time has come to say goodbye. This morning I received a call from the current coach, who told me that he doesn't count and that he won't count on me, regardless of the level I can show or how my sports career continues. ", he clarifies.
The PSG central defender played his last match for Spain on March 31, 2021 against Kosovo (3-1).
Since then, he has not counted for Luis Enrique anymore.
From what he has revealed, he was not part of
Luis de la Fuente
's plans either .
"With great regret, it is the end of a journey that I hoped would be longer and that it would end with a better taste in the mouth, on a par with all the successes we have achieved with our Red," the former Real Madrid player pointed out in the controversial statement. .
The Andalusian closes his journey with Spain with a total of 180 matches as a full international, in which he scored 23 goals and won a World Cup and two European Championships.
"Humbly, I believe that this career deserved to end due to a personal decision or because my performance was not up to what our team deserves, but not due to age or other reasons that, without having heard them, I have felt", he admits and assures that "being young or less young is not a virtue or a defect, it is just a temporary characteristic that is not necessarily related to performance or ability. I look with admiration and envy at Modric, Messi,
Pepe
... the essence, tradition, values, meritocracy and justice in football. Unfortunately it will not be like that for me, because football is not always fair and football is never just football".
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