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Barcelona will play a very special match tonight.
Gerard Piqué, a true legend of the Blaugrana club, will hang up his boots after the match against Almería on matchday 13 of the League.
The center-back, who announced the decision by surprise last Thursday, says goodbye to what has been his fans for 15 years and will do so starting from the starting eleven.
The club will pay tribute to him before and after the game.
Regarding the competition, Barcelona is playing to continue in the race with Real Madrid for the League, which it could provisionally overtake, since the whites drew on the last day against Girona.
Almería breathes thanks to its last victory against Celta, but arrives at the Camp Nou with the desire to continue adding points to move away from the relegation zone.
BCN Barcelona
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Ter Stegen, Lewandowski, Ferrán Torres, Alba, Alex Balde, Pedri, Frenkie De Jong, Ousmane Dembélé, Marcos Alonso, Piqué and Busquets
ALM Almeria
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Lucas Robertone, Fernando Martínez, Leo Baptistao, Houboulang Mendes, Gonzalo Melero, Rodrigo Ely, Samuel Costa, Ramazani, Akieme, Chumi and Kaiky
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Referee
Pablo Gonzalez Fuertes
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BAR 0 - 0 ALM | min 1
From the beginning of the game it is clear that this is going to be a constant tribute.
Every time Piqué touches the ball, the Camp Nou responds with a standing ovation.
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Start the match!
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Before the match begins, Lewandowski receives the award for the best player in LaLiga for the month of October.
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Players take to the field
Piqué, wearing the captain's armband, leads the Barça team, all wearing the central defender's shirt, on their way out to the Camp Nou while the Barcelona anthem plays.
The player greets the fans as the teams line up in midfield.
Barcelona wears the first azulgrana kit and Almería also wears the first red and white kit.
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The soloist who led the best Barcelona
Around Piqué there has always been so much noise that it is often forgotten that he has been one of the best central defenders in the history of Barcelona.
His is a movie life that has justified the raison d'être of social networks and fed the tabloid press, the economic press, even the event and entertainment press and of course the sports press, as a champion footballer of the world the same day he was intimate with Shakira.
He never gave up being a good family man, he always wanted to be a modern businessman — legality before ethics — and he never hid at night, a lover of the casino and also of revelry, capable of having fun like a child together with Riqui Puig to later discuss with the Urban Guard.
The Piqué pack admits in any case a lot of controversy, except when it comes to football and the Barça player.
Read Ramon Besa's opinion by clicking here.
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The Barça players go out to warm up and before starting the exercises they take a team photo with Gerard Piqué in the centre.
The Camp Nou screens are broadcasting the video with which the central defender announced his withdrawal last Thursday.
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Xavi: "Piqué deserves all the best and may Barça honor him"
Barça returns to the Camp Nou in what will be Gerard Piqué's last game.
After announcing his retirement from football through his social networks, the central defender with the most titles in history will wear the Barça colors for the last time against Almería.
"How do you face tomorrow's game after saying goodbye?", they asked Xavi Hernández.
“Obviously, we will be conditioned by the dismissal.
Piqué deserves all the praise in the world.
I have been lucky to be his teammate and now his coach.
He feels less important, less useful and the normal thing is to take this step to the side, ”replied the Barça coach.
"Tomorrow he deserves all the best and that Barcelona fans honor him," he added.
Read Xavi's statements before the match by Pau Pedraza and Jordi Quixano by clicking here.
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The 'Piqué environment' has Barça in suspense
The effect of Piqué's goodbye on Barça is still unknown.
The center-back has announced that he will return while Laporta tries to get Messi to return.
It is not exactly a comparable situation because it is known that Piqué announced on his day that he would like to be president of Barcelona.
Rosario, on the other hand, still has time as a footballer before becoming a coach, sports director or the position he requests if he finally reappears at the Camp Nou.
A plan relatively similar to Iniesta's.
The immediate future of Busquets, meanwhile, is in Miami and Puyol's intentions are unknown.
Read this analysis by Ramon Besa by clicking here.
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From 'Piquenbauer' to meme
A historic Barça employee tells that, in 2016, on one of those occasions in which the Argentine was walking with the fly behind his ear and was considering leaving the Barça entity, he arrived at the Ciudad Deportiva and crossed paths with Piqué.
His old classmate from the '87 class made him laugh.
"Where are you going?
Where are you going to get the jokes from Geri?
Messi stayed.
The problem was that the graces of 3, sometimes, ceased to be so.
Like when they both set fire to an old motorcycle owned by a prop man — “it made a lot of noise”, he justified it and the next day they bought him a new one— or like when he dropped two stink bombs during a Barça expedition.
At that time, Luis Enrique was in charge at the Camp Nou, and he got fed up with him, especially after an incident between the defender and the Guardia Urbana.
“You envy me because I am famous”,
Read the analysis of Piqué's career by Juan Irigoyen by clicking here.
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man of the match
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Eleven from Almeria
Rubi's men want to stand up to the Camp Nou and come out with a formation of five defenders, seeking to drive Xavi's team crazy.
The complete eleven of Almería is: Fernando;
Mendes, Kaiky, Ely, Chumi, Akieme;
Robertone, Samu, Melero;
Baptistao and Ramazani.
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We already know the lineups
How could it be otherwise, Gerard Piqué leads Barcelona in his last game.
Robert Lewandowski returns to the starting lineup after being rested against Viktoria Plzen on Tuesday.
The complete eleven of Barcelona is: Ter Stegen;
Balde, Marcos Alonso, Pique, Jordi Alba;
Busquets, Of Jong, Pedri;
Dembele, Ferran Torres and Lewandowski.
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Good afternoon everyone.
Tonight we have a very special match at the Camp Nou with the visit of Almería.
A legend hangs up his boots.
Gerard Piqué plays his last game in what has been his home for the last 15 years.
The club is expected to pay tribute to the centre-back before and after the game.
Let's go with the preview!
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