06/04/2021 15:40
Clarín.com
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Updated 06/04/2021 16:08
This Friday the 4th, the world of football stopped around the figure of Carlos Tevez.
Apache seems to have decided to leave Boca in the third stage at the club, and it is believed that he could also announce that he is retiring from football at 37 years old.
In the case of hanging up the boots, a destination that could perhaps be modified if he ends up accepting any of the offers he has to try his luck in the MLS, Carlitos puts an end to a career that traveled all geographies with one constant word: champion.
The 10 of Boca, the last idol of the most glorious stage in the history of the xeneize institution, is part of the podium of Argentine footballers with the highest number of Olympic laps: he won 29 titles, the same number as the recently retired Lucho González and only below the 37 accumulated by Lionel Messi.
Of all of them, he enjoyed the most important with the Boca shirt: the 2003 Intercontinental in Japan that he snatched from Carlo Ancelotti's Milan, today Real Madrid's coach, and with figures of the stature of Cafu, Maldini and Pirlo.
18 years passed and there was no other national team capable of matching that feat conceived by the brain of Carlos Bianchi.
At the age of 19, Tevez dressed up in a kimono and headband in the Bombonera to walk with the glass in his arms.
A few months later, he began his career abroad, always successful.
In 2008, Tevez won the Champions League with Manchester United in Moscow and celebrated by lifting his "orejona" dressed in the Argentina shirt.
Photo: EFE / YURI KOCHETKOV.
Is that Carlitos was champion with every shirt he wore, except for one: Corinthians (1 title), Manchester United (6), Manchester City (3), Juventus (4), even with the unknown
Shanghai Shenhua
(1) in his exile by China. The exception was the humble West Ham, his first step in Europe, which he saved from relegation through goals in the final stretch of the 2006 Premier League. The peak of his career abroad was reached in 2008 by lifting the Champions League. with United, and shortly after he repeated at the Club World Cup. He won it all.
In Boca, in addition to the aforementioned Intercontinental, he ended up closing
a total of 11 consecrations
, including the 2003 Copa Libertadores with a memorable defeat of Santos in the final, and the most celebrated of his recent stage, the 2020 Super League that he snatched from River in the last date, the night of Diego Maradona's piquito, the goal
in extremis
against Gimnasia and his scream climbing the fence like one more fan.
Athens 2004, pride and emotion: Tevez and the gold medal on his chest.
Photo: Clarín Archive.
With the Argentine National Team he alternated good and bad, always punishing his condition as a footballer "without a fixed position", a challenge for each coach who had him in their ranks.
He was left out of the list for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil but was part of the Olympic team that took the gold medal in Athens 2004: he scored in the final and was the tournament's top scorer.
In total, he won 3 titles with the albiceleste if the Pre-Olympic of that year and the South American Sub20 of 2003 are added.
Although Apache's stronghold was never his goalscoring mark, this year he added another page to his legacy at Boca by entering the club's top ten all-time scorers.
It was on April 27 when he scored his 93rd goal, relegating none other than Juan Román Riquelme to that table of legends.
One more goal was missing: Tevez saved his last cry for River, the day that Xeneize was finally able to cut the adverse streak against his lifelong rival and eliminated him on penalties.
In this way, Carlitos completed his record with the blue and gold: 279 games and 94 goals.
If you add up his entire club career, Carlitos completed 748 games and scored 308 goals.
With the youth of Argentina, he played 45 games and converted in 22 chances;
and with the major, 76 games and 13 goals.
An unbeatable career that only needs the official announcement to confirm his farewell.
He yelled it like one more fan.
On March 7, 2020, Carlos Tevez scored the championship goal and snatched the title from River on the last date.
Photo: EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni.
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