Although he has been underneath the spotlight nowadays, the reality is that Gerard Pique, at 35 years of age, continues to be an indisputable member of the Barcelona defence. The defender continues to perform at a excessive stage, which, collectively along with his toughness, permits him to feature to his legend at Barcelona week by using week.
After gambling the second half in opposition to Galatasaray in the Europa League, the centre-back brought every other sport within the blue and white jersey in opposition to Osasuna in La Liga and reached six hundred video games with the Catalan aspect considering the fact that his debut underneath Pep Guardiola inside the 2008-09 season. A milestone that, as we can see from the BeSoccer Pro statistics, makes him the fourth centre-lower back to attain this determine with the same crew to this point within the twenty first century.
Before Pique, other greats have accomplished this feat: Jamie Carragher (600 games for Liverpool), Sergio Ramos (671 video games for Real Madrid) and John Terry, who leads this curious desk thanks to his 694 appearances for the club of his lifestyles: Chelsea.
The Catalan defender reached 600 appearances for Barca and additionally occupies a privileged position in phrases of primary goal-scorers, as best the aforementioned Sergio Ramos (102 for Madrid) and John Terry (66 for Chelsea) can boast of getting scored more than Pique's fifty three dreams for the Camp Nou membership.
Now, Barcelona's No3 might be looking to continue mountain climbing positions in the blaugrana Olympus on the give up of the season wherein the team could be gambling for their presence inside the next Champions League (either via La Liga or Europa League), something essential for the destiny plans of the membership, in which Pique seems that he will stay a key participant.
