The star of world football Xavi Hernandez announced that after the end of this season will finally hang his boots on the nail.

The player admits that recently he takes much more time to recover, so he does not have time to fully prepare for the next game.

"I was lucky that I did not have any serious injuries. I think that my career is slowly coming to an end. Qatar allowed me this. I see that I'm getting tired more and it's getting harder for me to recover. This season will definitely be the last for me as a football player. Now he intends to get a license coach, "- quotes the words of Havi edition of Mundo Leo.

Now Xavi performs in the Qatari club "Al-Sadd", which he filled in in 2015. During this time, as part of his team, Xavi managed to win the Qatar Super Cup, the Cup of the Emir of Qatar and the Prince's Cup of Qatar.

Recall that almost all his career the Spaniard dedicated to the Catalan "Barcelona", for which he spoke for 17 years (from 1998 to 2015). For "blaugranas" the midfielder held 505 matches, in which he scored 58 goals scored. Together with "Barcelona" Xavi won 8 championships in Spain, three times won the Copa del Rey and six times the Super Bowl. In addition, four times Xavi became the winner of the Champions League.

Earlier, the end of the career was reported by no less legendary footballer - Italian Andrea Pirlo.