Costa Rican soccer player Bryan Ruiz, who played for Sporting, announced on Wednesday that he will end his career on December 17, in a match between Alajuelense, the current club and the one in which he was formed, and the Dutchman from Twente.
It is the farewell of my dreams, to finish my career as I always wanted”, reported Ruiz, through the Alajuelense portal, alluding to the match between the club of his heart and Twente, in which he experienced the best moments. of his career
The Dutch team will hold a concentration in Costa Rica, between December 12 and 22, taking advantage of the break for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, during which they will face Alajuelense, at the Alejandro Morera Soto stadium, belonging to the club, the next 17 December, at Ruiz’s farewell match.
The announcement of this farewell had been made earlier this year, for a date after the 2022 World Cup, in which the Costa Rican team will participate, with Bryan Ruiz secured a place in the Ticos, as coach Luís Fernando Suárez already reported. . .
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Bryan Ruiz, 37, was trained at Alajuelense, but still very young he left for Ghent, Belgium, from where he went to Twente.
In the Dutch national team he played between 2009 and 2012, registering a record of 97 games played, a Dutch champion title, in 2010, two Super Cups, in 2010 and 2011, and a Cup, in 2011.
At the service of Twente he played in the Champions League, but he would go to Fulham, from England, followed by a return to Dutch football, to PSV Eindhoven, a loan to Sporting and Santos, from Brazil, before returning to Alajuelense, in 2020, after 14 years playing abroad.
the extreme represented Sporting between 2015 and 2018participating in 121 games and scoring 18 goals for the “lions”, at the service of which he won a Super Cup in 2015.
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Ruiz is considered one of the soccer legends in Costa Rica, for whose national team 144 gameshaving participated in the 2014 World Cups, in Brazil, and 2018, in Russia, and is now about to leave for Qatar2022.
Source: Observadora
