"I tried to make changes, but I failed," said the former French sports director of FC Barcelona Eric Abidal in an open letter published on Thursday on his Instagram account, two days after breaking his contract with the club. “Over the past two years, I've tried to make changes that I thought were very important for the future of the first team. But despite my conviction and my insistence, I failed, “wrote the former French international footballer Thursday (67 selections).
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Benvolguts / des Barcelonistes, Vull aprofitar aquestes línies per acomiadar-me de tots vosaltres. Ho faig of the pleasure my profund per haver pogut compartir due stages of the meva vida. Una com a jugador i un altre com a responsible for the Secretaria Tècnica del FC Barcelona. Aquest segon comiat contemplated 2 anys in which he intends to treballar per fer a Barça millor. Due intense temporades that he Donat de finalitzades per decisió pròpia. Despite the fact that the Junta Directiva hem will ratify dilluns en el meu càrrec, dimarts passat vaig presentar la meva dimissió. En els darrers dos anys he intention ralitzar canvis que creia molt important per al future del primer equip. Malgrat el meu convenciment i la meva insistència no ho he aconseguit. Es per això que crec que ha arribat el moment of possar punt i final at la meva vinculació amb el club. Vull deixar constància de que he renunciat a l'any de contracte que encara tenia amb el FCBarcelona. Avui la situació del club es complicada, però no tingueu cap dubte de que desitjo de tot cor que es pugui superar i que èxits tornin aviat tal i com es mereix aquest gran club. Thanks to eternal tots. Visca el Barça i Visca Catalunya. Eric Abidal
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“This second goodbye (after his departure as a player in 2013) comes to end two years when I tried to work to make Barça better. Two intense seasons which I decided to end with my own decision. Although the management committee confirmed me in my post on Monday, I submitted my resignation on Tuesday, giving up the last year of my contract with FC Barcelona, ”Abidal said. "The time has come to put an end to the link that unites me with this club," concluded the former defender Blaugrana (2007-2013).
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Tuesday, Barça cut ties with the French sporting director, four days after the terrible debacle of FC Barcelona 8-2 against Bayern Munich in the quarter-final of the Champions League on Friday in Lisbon, and the day after Setién's dismissal as Barça coach. Eric Abidal was appointed sporting director of the club blaugrana two years ago, on June 7, 2018, in place of Roberto Fernandez. Ramon Planes, his right-hand man for two years, took over at Barça, the Catalan club announced on Wednesday. "The club's situation is complicated, but I have no doubt that he will be okay with it," Abidal said in his farewell letter to Blaugrana supporters.
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