Barcelona (EFE) to the referees.
In an interview with ‘El Món a RAC1’, the first he has given after hanging up his boots as a Barça player last November, the former central defender said that, no matter how much he wants to “dirty” the club’s image, “ nobody can doubt” the successes achieved in the last two decades.
“I would put my hand in the fire because Barça has not bought referees. If you want to buy a referee, it’s very easy, stay with him and give him an envelope,” Piqué stressed.
In this sense, he considered that the arbitration reports were not useful for the players, since many already knew the referees, but especially for the coaches.
“The players, especially those of us who have been around for more years, already know the referees, but the coaches, especially those who come from abroad, are good at having these reports to know which foot each referee is wearing,” he pointed out.
And, when asked if the consequences of the ‘Negreira case’ cast doubt on the titles of his successful stage as a player, he added: “We were much superior, we did not depend on the referee for good or bad. I would pass Olympically and the following”.
However, Piqué, who in the interview did not hide his desire to be president of the club in the future “without forcing things”, has “a lot of confidence” in Barça and the leaders who currently lead it to face the legal consequences of the case. for payments to the vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) between 1994 and 2018.
In the interview, the former Bonanova soccer player also gave details about his retirement as a professional soccer player announced last November, a “very thoughtful” decision that he does not regret, considering that it was “the most appropriate thing” for him and for the team. .
Likewise, he specified that when he announced his withdrawal, all the “pending accounts” of his contract with the Barça club had already been settled and he denied that the celebration at the Camp Nou of the final phase of the Kings League, the seven-a-side football competition that he promotes, have something to do with your goodbye.
“The thing about taking the Kings League to the Camp Nou was a fever of mine and I wrote a message to the president (Laporta). In the end, we have reached an agreement in which I believe that Barça wins, since we divide the price of the tickets and we, everything we earn, we allocate to the production of the event, ”he settled.
Piqué: “All I want is for my children to be well”
Piqué has also assured that he is going through a good personal moment, after his separation with the Colombian artist Shakira, the mother of his two children, of whom he has said that, as a father, his goal is for them to “be well”.
He has spoken about his personal situation marked by the break with the mother of his children, Milan and Sasha, with whom he signed an agreement last December for the Colombian singer to stay in charge of the minors in Miami (United States).
Piqué has been asked about the song by Shakira and the Argentine producer Bizarrap published under the title “BZRP Music Session #53”, in which his ex-partner launches phrases against him.
“People have a responsibility, especially those of us who are parents, to try to protect our children. Each one makes the decisions that he believes appropriate. And I don’t feel like talking about it. The only thing I want is for my children to be well ”, Piqué replied when asked if he had heard the subject of his ex-partner.
The former soccer player has also defended the decision for his son Milan to participate in a Kings League program, the seven-a-side soccer championship that he himself promotes and that has twelve teams chaired by ‘streamers’ or well-known former players such as Iker Casillas or Sergio ‘ Kun Aguero.
“My son asked me to participate in the program and I did. The way he participated, I was very proud of him. I do the shapes in one way and I try to do it in the best possible way. In class you do not receive a lesson on how you can be a better or worse father ”, he reflected.
However, the former Barcelona player has explained that he is “fine” personally, after last November he decided to hang up his boots as a professional footballer.
Precisely, after playing his last game at the Camp Nou, Piqué said in his speech that “when you get older, wanting is to let go”, a phrase that he was not prepared for, as he has revealed, although he has acknowledged that it was framed in a moment in which “many things” were happening in his life.