The hour of retirement has come for Javier Mascherano. At 36, the former player of Liverpool (139 matches, 2 goals) and Barcelona (334 matches, 1 goal) announces this Sunday that he is hanging up his crampons. “I would like to thank this club which gave me the opportunity to end my career in Argentina,” he said, referring to Estudiantes de La Plata, where he has played ten matches since the start of the year, after two years in China, at Hebei China Fortune. “It’s time to end my career because of things that have happened to me over the past few months, on a personal level, and after thinking about it all this time, it’s best to end today. I lived my job 100%, I gave the best of myself, ”he said. Trained at River Plate and then passed through Corinthians and West Ham, Javier Mascherano notably won two Champions Leagues (2011, 2015) and five Spanish league titles (2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018) with Barça, and two Olympic gold medals with the Argentina team (2004, 2008). With 147 selections (3 goals), he is also the most capped player in the history of the Argentine selection.
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