Oribe Peralta announces his retirement as a professional player

The striker, at 38 years old, and not finding a new team, says goodbye to the courts

Oribe Peralta announced this Wednesday his goodbye from the courts, just after turning 38 and after being cut off from Chivas and not finding a good option to continue his career.

The historic Mexican striker, who debuted in the top circuit on February 22, 2003 with Monarcas Morelia, almost 19 years ago, made the official announcement through their social networks, as anticipated ESPN.

The attacker wrote “19 years of wearing the professional jacket, plus a lifetime of dedication and devotion. This is my way of saying goodbye and above all to thank you, my fans, and each one of the people who made this dream possible.” They are worth Gold!”, a message that was accompanied by an emotional video.

The video, which lasts 2:22 minutes, begins with a series of caricatured images of the beginnings of Oribe Peralta in soccer and his first experiences next to the ball, which led him to fulfill his dream of being a professional.

“I was always tied to a ball. If you ask me, that has been the great success of my life. Soccer depends on a ball to be able to be and that’s how I clung to it, as if my existence also depended on it “.

19 years of wearing the professional jacket, plus a lifetime of dedication and devotion. This is my way of saying goodbye and above all to thank you, my fans, and each one of the people who made this dream possible. They are worth gold!https://t.co/T1IDpzDThd

– Oribe Peralta (@OribePeralta) January 12, 2022

In the clip, the now former attacker reveals that although the ball gave him moments of joy, when he stayed to play until night with his friends, he was also present in the difficult moments in his professional career.

“The ball has been my confidant and my unconditional company. He has shared with me each of the shirts I have had the honor of wearing, remaining faithful and stoic while listening to me tell him about my happiness. The same as when I told him about my frustrations and my battles.”

“In his role as a teacher, he has been harsh. It has challenged my resistance like no other, it is also the cause of the most painful blows that my body has received, and of the most serious falls that I have suffered, which far from being those that have knocked down on the field of play, have been those product of that weakness, which sometimes lets you incarnate as if to see, and make yourself see, what you are really made of”.

Peralta played in Morelia, León, Monterrey, Santos, Jaguares, América and Chivas, although this last stage in the Flock was the worst in his career, scoring only one penalty goal in 33 Liga MX games played with the team from Guadalajara. as well as something else in the missing Copa MX.

Peralta closed the message with a thank you to the ball for, in addition to being with him for much of his life, being his inseparable friend who brought him closer to millions of people in the 19 years that his career lasted, in which he added four MX Leagues, a Copa MX, two Concacaf Champions Leagues, a Gold Cup, a Concacaf Cup, a Pan American Games and a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics.

Oribe Peralta He will always be remembered for the two goals he scored against Brazil in the Final that Mexico beat the Amazonians 2-1 at Wembley to win the gold medal in 2012, as well as the mark he left especially among the fans of Santos Laguna and America, where he lived his best stage as a footballer between 2010 and 2018.