Goodbye to an era. Rudy Fernández will leave basketball at the end of this season. The Real Madrid forward, who turns 39 this Thursday, has announced his retirement at the end of a course that he hopes to crown with another milestone in his majestic career, that of becoming the only basketball player in history to play in six Olympic Games. “Retirement is a difficult and shocking word when you hear it, but there is a moment in my career when I am already of an age and I start to think about things other than basketball, about family. This is ending, but there are still a few months to try to help and I hope to contribute as much as possible,” he commented at the press conference prior to this Friday’s Euroleague match against Baskonia.
“I have to fulfill my father’s dream of experiencing another Olympic Games,” Rudy added about the promise he made to his father, who died in May 2022. “I promised my father that I would continue in the national team, that makes me happy.” “it moves,” he commented in an interview with EL PAÍS last August, during the World Cup.
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