“I don’t know if my career will go to the west or the east of the globe. The United States is a country that I love, but there are other things when it comes to evaluating my career. What I know is that it is not finished and I have one, two or three more years left,” said Sergio Ramos, a Spanish football legend, at his farewell to Sevilla. A press conference with a large representation of all types of press, where Sergio appeared accompanied by his family and in which the word thank you was heard on many occasions. “I am not renewing at Sevilla for a personal and family reason. I appreciate the attempts of the club where I was trained, but I came a year ago to heal a wound with the fans with my performance and to settle a debt with my grandparents, my father, Antonio Puerta and José Antonio Reyes. “That debt has been settled and this is a closed stage,” he added.
Sergio has not considered the financial offer that Sevilla has put in front of him and which considerably improved the million euros he earned at the Andalusian club in the last year. “I neither came for money nor am I leaving for money. I thank Sevilla for their interest, but the stage is over. “I have helped in the locker room to bring about new leadership at Sevilla, which is going through a difficult situation,” he clarified. He was a renewed Sergio, with strength, even capable of admitting that his performance at Sevilla could have given him a place in Spain in the Euro Cup. “I have done everything in my power to be called up. There are things that do not depend on you. What depended on me is there. It hurts my soul not to represent my country, but I am happy with the start for my teammates and I hope that Spain goes as far as possible. I hope we achieve a new Euro Cup,” the 2010 South Africa world champion stated bluntly.
“I leave with a clear conscience,” he clarified. “I don’t think about retirement at all. I am physically strong. There are several proposals on the table, but I have not sat down to evaluate them. It is an issue that the family also influences,” Sergio added. Sevilla has offered him the possibility of returning to the club in the future, but Sergio is only thinking now about starting a new stage. His recent time in Dallas in the NBA Finals has nothing to do with a sporting future in the United States. He came at the invitation of Doncic, with whom he has a good friendship. While Pilar Rubio, his wife, records a series of programs for Canal Sur, Sergio will sit down to evaluate some offers that will take him away from Spain and from that Seville that he loves so much. Messi’s Inter Miami wants him and he loves the city, but Saudi money also tempts him.
“The wound was closed. I can’t please everyone. Anyone who doubts my Sevillismo with the performance I have given this year is because he is lost,” concluded the camero, with the number 15 tattooed on his head. The number with which he was world and European champion. The Spanish football legend leaves the Sevilla dressing room in the hands of Navas, Ocampos and Gudelj. He begins a new stage at 38 years old. His career seems to have no end.
