Former Barcelona defender Carles
Puyol has announced that he is leaving his post as assistant director of
football. Puyol had only been in the role for just over
three months, but has decided to follow sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta
out of the club after the Basque was relieved of his duties earlier on Monday. Continue..
"In this statement I want to let you know
that I have finalised my working relationship with Futbol Club Barcelona,"
Puyol wrote on his Facebook account.
"These three and a half months have given
me the opportunity to see the other side of the club. I have learned a lot, I
am very grateful, but I want to experience other things from another
perspective and from other places.
"I want to grow both personally and
professionally so that, in future, I can hopefully return to this house and
give back everything you have given to me in these unforgettable years."
Puyol also added that he would have preferred to
have said farewell on the football field and thanked the fans for their amazing
support.
"I am still enormously grateful to the
employees, directors, president and the football department for helping and
believing in me in this period of transition which has been anything but
easy," he said. "But above all, the fans. As a player, I always felt
they were very close to me and since my retirement, even more so.
"I would like to have said goodbye to
everyone with my boots on, but life doesn't always give you what you wish for.
I have been and am extremely fortunate to feel so much affection, and can only
say THANK YOU and know that I will always hold you in my heart. Long live Barca!"
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