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00:00Hello everyone, through this video I would love to tell you that I am going to leave professional football, I think I have made a right decision, a meditated decision, a very family-friendly decision and with my closest environment.
00:19I think it is also time to close a very important cycle in my life, it is also a time to be able to start another stage of my life and another family stage that will surely be just as successful as this stage that gave us great satisfactions in every way.
00:40I would love to thank all the clubs that have given me the opportunity to grow, the opportunity to develop myself in every personal and work environment, I would like to thank Colo Colo, Real Sociedad, Barcelona Football Club, Manchester City, Real Betis Balompié,
01:05I would like to thank all the teammates that I have had throughout my career, all the coaches, all the managers, all the staff that has been able to help me in all the moments, especially not so good in football and in the moments where adaptation is required when you get to certain places or other countries where things work in a different way.
01:32I would like to thank all the fans that throughout the world have been supporting me, giving me affection, respect and also admiration.
01:42I would also like to thank the fundamental part of my life, the engine of what my career has meant during all this, more than 23 years linked to professional football, which are my parents, my brothers, my wife Carla, my four children Josefa, Maite, Mateo and Emma,
02:04that we have had the opportunity to grow together in this long career and beautiful adventure that has meant a lot in every sense of life.
02:14I would also like to close an important cycle within the national team, I have had the opportunity to carry the flag of our country throughout the world, I have carried it with great pride.
02:27For me, as a former professional football player, it has been the most wonderful thing I have been able to do in this beautiful career, playing two World Cups, playing Copas America, obtaining two titles for Chile.
02:43I think the pride for me has been maximum in the national team. It is also time to close this wonderful stage that Chile has given me the opportunity to compete.
02:55I would also like to thank all the fans, the respect, the affection, the admiration that they have given me during all these years, in a stadium, in a street, in a supermarket, in a shopping center, throughout Chile and throughout the world.
03:13I will always keep them with a lot of affection and with a lot of respect and I will always be there for all of them, so it is a timely moment, a beautiful moment, a moment full of my life in all aspects that can be developed.
03:29So thank you very much to everyone and now it's time to develop a new stage of my life. Thank you very much to everyone.
03:43Thank you very much.