Iker Casillas and Sara Carbonero prepare their return to Madrid after five years in Porto following the definitive retirement of the goalkeeper. Despite a difficult last year after the athlete suffered a heart attack and the journalist had to face ovarian cancer, the couple has always been united until a few months ago, when the news about an alleged sentimental crisis made the news jump. alarms. During the move from the Portuguese city to the Spanish capital, the footballer has broken his usual discretion and has done it strangely speaking with a magazine, Semana, where he has wanted to settle any speculation, not without first admitting that they have not gone through their best moments. "I have been from one place to another, and I have not been what I should have been next to Sara," the doorman acknowledges to the publication.
Two weeks ago Carbonero was seen attending his grandfather's funeral in Corral de Almaguer, in Toledo, without the caretaker's company. “I couldn't go because it was the final of the Portuguese Cup and to get into the stadium I had to take a coronavirus test. Also, it was my last game with the active team and I had to be there. After that game I don't paint anything else in football, ”Casillas says about his absence.
The last images of the two of them together are from last February on one of their usual family walks on the beach in Porto, since then they have not been seen together again. Nor in his social networks, where the last reference of him to her was in the statement that the goalkeeper made public last week to announce his withdrawal. “To my wife and children, Martín and Lucas, thank you for all your support, for all those hours that I have not been able to spend with you on this last journey of my sporting life. Thank you for understanding me and encouraging me to enjoy this life that I chose. Without a doubt everything is easier by your side ”, wrote the doorman in her farewell letter. Before, on February 3, Casillas congratulated Carbonero with a photo of the two from behind and hugging.
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And we see how the 30 and some more arrive !! @saracarbonero !! #felicidades #parabens #happybirthday
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"A year ago Sara and I changed our lives and what you have to do is face it and enjoy what you have," insists Casillas to the publication, recognizing that his heart attack and his wife's cancer have inevitably taken its toll At the couple. While he finalizes the removal of all his belongings from his house in Porto and supervises the move, Sara Carbonero has traveled to Madrid, where he has reunited with his partner and friend Isabel Jiménez in their fashion brand, Slow Love.
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Visit to the office @slowloveoficial. #cosasbonitas #unveranomuyverano #slowlife
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In a few weeks, the couple and their two children, Martín and Lucas, aged six and four respectively, will settle again in the capital, although they have not yet decided whether they will return to the home that the family owns in the exclusive La Finca urbanization. from Madrid or to a house that the goalkeeper has acquired in the Parque del Oeste area, close to Moncloa. “We still don't know where we are going to live. We will do our vacations in the town of Sara [Corral de Almaguer] and in mine [Navalacruz]. We are risky people and we don't want to expose ourselves ”, concludes the footballer, whose future job is still up in the air but it is said that he will join as Florentino Pérez's advisor at Real Madrid, the team that has given him so much joy in his career. sport life.
