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The end of an era.....David Villa
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OZGOD
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Playing in the A League before he heads off to New York too
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Fantastic striker. Quite unfortunate that he spent his peak years at Valencia.
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Great player. Sad end to his international career but atleast he scored in his last game showing his class.
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nothing wrong with that. Valencia is a top club just below elite clubs like Real, Barca, United, Bayern and along with the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal, Inter. Roma etc.
What is unfortunate is how the injury at Barca derailed his career. Mind you he is 32 still and has a very good last season. Prolly still has a cpl years at the top
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Which is why it's unfortunate. David Villa was the best striker in the world in his peak and Spain's main man. He should have player for Barcelona or Madrid in his peak.
Personally I feel Barcelona should have moved for Villa in 2007 instead of Henry who didn't have much left. They got Villa 3 years too late.
Personally I feel Barcelona should have moved for Villa in 2007 instead of Henry who didn't have much left. They got Villa 3 years too late.
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Valencia is a good and respectable team but that's it. Players like Silva and Mata left for better teams in their peak and Villa should have done the same.
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^ Thats kinda true but my point is it wasnt like he was playing at some small club. He won the Kings cup at Valencia and was a regular in the Champions League. And mind you in the 4-5 years before he joined, Valencia had won a couple of La Ligas and made 2 Champions League finals. So in no way was he joining a small club.
It is like saying Henry wasted his peak years at Arsenal and that Arsenal is too small a club
It is like saying Henry wasted his peak years at Arsenal and that Arsenal is too small a club
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Players like Mata and Silva left Valencia because of the financial troubles they found themselves in. Not because they are a small club. Neither really were desperate for a move. Valencia have been under a lot of debt which is why they were forced to part with their best players if the right offer came.
It is similar to Milan being forced to sell Kaka when the huge offer came. Not because either parties were desperate to part ways but because the deal was too hard to ignore from a financial standpoint considering the dire straits the club found itself in from that point of view. Kaka said himself that this was the main reason
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A team like Valencia has no realistic chance of winning the La Liga and the CL in this era. There is only so much you can progress there as a player. It's absurd to think that Silva and Mata would not have left to progress and develop further. You can't compare them to Milan which is one of the most prestigious teams in the world, even if they are in a slump right now. Valencia can't break the big two monopoly in Spain.
Atletico did that but they are already on the brink of losing their best players. Costa and Luis to chelsea, Courtois will go back there as well and eventually one day, the likes of Koke and Turan would move on as well.
It's very difficult and almost impossible for teams like Valencia, Atletico etc to hold onto their best players both due to financial reasons and due to the ambition of the players as well. Very few Spanish players would turn down a move to Barcelona or Madrid at their peak.
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David Villa was definitely amongst the very best that I saw. He was amazing during Spain´s victory of the FIFA World Cup 2010. Wonderful player!
It was nice to see him score a goal in his last match - and it was a pretty stylish goal too if my memory serves me right.
It was nice to see him score a goal in his last match - and it was a pretty stylish goal too if my memory serves me right.
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Should have played all of Spain's group games. Felt for him. One of the few players I have a jersey of.
Others being Raul, Zidane, and Henry.
Others being Raul, Zidane, and Henry.
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Surely he should have.
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completely underrated imo
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Yeah, under-rated a lot.
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David Villa: Spain's top scorer to retire at end of J-League season
Spain's all-time top goalscorer David Villa will retire next month, at the end of Japan's J-League season.
The former Barcelona striker will end a 19-year career, in which he won the 2010 World Cup and 2008 European Championship with his country.
The 37-year-old, who also won two La Liga titles and the Champions League with Barca, said he had been thinking about the decision "for a long time".
"I wanted to retire from football, not be forced to retire," he added.
Villa, who has been playing for Vissel Kobe this year after four seasons in the United States with New York City, will become an investor in Queensboro FC, a new franchise based in the New York district of Queens that will play in the second tier of US football.
"Even though I will no longer be on the pitch, I will continue to be involved in football in other ways and will continue to contribute to the football world," he said.
Villa scored 59 times for Spain, playing in three World Cups, lifting the trophy in 2010 after winning the European Championship two years before.
He also scored the third goal for Barcelona at Wembley in the 3-1 win over Manchester United in the 2010-11 Champions League Final.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50401494
Spain's all-time top goalscorer David Villa will retire next month, at the end of Japan's J-League season.
The former Barcelona striker will end a 19-year career, in which he won the 2010 World Cup and 2008 European Championship with his country.
The 37-year-old, who also won two La Liga titles and the Champions League with Barca, said he had been thinking about the decision "for a long time".
"I wanted to retire from football, not be forced to retire," he added.
Villa, who has been playing for Vissel Kobe this year after four seasons in the United States with New York City, will become an investor in Queensboro FC, a new franchise based in the New York district of Queens that will play in the second tier of US football.
"Even though I will no longer be on the pitch, I will continue to be involved in football in other ways and will continue to contribute to the football world," he said.
Villa scored 59 times for Spain, playing in three World Cups, lifting the trophy in 2010 after winning the European Championship two years before.
He also scored the third goal for Barcelona at Wembley in the 3-1 win over Manchester United in the 2010-11 Champions League Final.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50401494
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