Iker Casillas To End Playing Profession, Says FC Porto President | Football News
Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa mentioned on Tuesday that Iker Casillas is ready to retire, an afternoon after the Global Cup-winning captain introduced he would run for the presidency of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). Casillas, 38, have been anticipated to deliver an finish to a glittering taking part in occupation after making the announcement however hasn’t ever showed that he was once striking up his boots. “Sooner than pronouncing his candidacy, Iker Casillas got here to look me to tell me of his resolution to finish his occupation,” Pinto da Costa instructed Portuguese media on Tuesday.
Casillas, who joined Porto in 2015 however suffered a middle assault in April and hasn’t performed a aggressive sport since, is thought of as some of the biggest goalkeepers of his era and led Spain to their first Global Cup triumph in South Africa in 2010.
He performed 167 occasions for Spain, additionally profitable two Eu Championships in 2008 and 2012, and made greater than 700 appearances for Actual Madrid, with whom he gained 5 Los angeles Liga titles and the Champions League 3 times.
Casillas have been related with the RFEF presidency for a number of months and is predicted to run towards present incumbent Luis Rubiales for the publish.
On Monday he mentioned that his intention to “put our federation on the best of the most efficient soccer on this planet, the soccer of Spain”.
Rubiales has been in perpetual warfare with Javier Tebas, the president of Los angeles Liga, and the pair have clashed over a large number of problems, together with fixture scheduling, fits in a foreign country and the postponement of the Clasico in October.
In keeping with the foundations, the elections must be held in the second one part of this 12 months after the Tokyo Olympics however Rubiales has asked they be introduced ahead, sooner than Euro 2020, which is able to happen between June 12 and July 12.
