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The Nou Camp will remember him.

Old people are always replaced by new people, which is an unavoidable law in competitive sports. Whether you are a shining superstar or a devotee who works silently, you can't do without such a fate in the end.

By Felicia MosleyPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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At a time when Messi and Barcelona are at odds with each other, someone has quietly bid farewell to the Rossoneri-Ivan Lakidzic, the name Nou Camp will remember.

When Lakidic moved to Barcelona for 21 million euros in the summer of 2014, not many people thought that the man with dual Croatian and Swiss nationality would become a true champion midfielder.

During his six years playing for Barcelona, he joined the team to win four La Liga titles, four Spanish Kings Cup titles and one Champions League title.

So, when he waved goodbye, the Nou Camp crowd could only pay their most sincere respects.

Lakidzic was born in a small town around Basel, Switzerland's third largest city, and although his father, a Croatian national, eventually chose to play for the Lattice Legion, the first memories of football are related to Switzerland.

At an early age, Lakitzic entered the youth training camp of the Swiss giants in Basel, where the boy embraced his original dream at the magnificent and modern St. Jacob Park.

In the 2005-06 season, 17-year-old Rakidge played for the Basel first team for the first time, and then in just two years, he completed the transition from a substitute to an absolute regular. In the 2006-07 season, after scoring 11 goals for his mother team and winning the award of best rookie in the league, the young man decided to go to the wider world. Schalke 04, the strong team of the Bundesliga, threw an olive branch and went to Schalke Stadium to become a place to take off.

In Germany, Lakidzic conquered the world with his excellent performance and was an indispensable member of the team for three and a half seasons in a row, which allowed the then Croatian coach Billich to get ahead of the Swiss national team. the 20-year-old was recruited into the plaid corps, but youth always paid the price of growth. Lakidic missed a key penalty in the 2008 European Cup against Turkey and could only watch his opponents embrace miracles.

The pain looks so relieved a decade later-Lakidzic is the subject of the humerus in the 2018 World Cup, when the golden generation of Croatia reached the final historically.

Of course, no matter how good memories there are in Croatia, Schalke 04 or Seville, for well-known stories or from Catalonia, when 26-year-old Lakidzic joined the La Liga giants, he wrote a prelude to a legendary road.

In the 15th season of 2014, the MSN team shone so brightly that people ignored Lakidic's role in Enrique's tactical revolution. In the Champions League final against Juventus, it was the Croat who sent assists for Eniesta's opening record, and Rakidzic became a low-key and shining presence among the stars of the Nou Camp.

After Xavi left Barcelona, the combination of Lakidic, Eniesta and Busquis is stable and complementary, and the Croats can be called the barrier and "perpetual motion machine" behind the Barcelona frontline combination. His outstanding running ability has made up for the decline in Barcelona's overall running ability, and he has become the new darling of the Nou Camp after helping Barcelona defend the league title in 2016.

In Lionel Messi's famous national Derby "clothes drying campaign", Lakitzic made a pass and became the most outstanding man behind the king. If you want to find an arm who knows Lionel Messi best in the Barcelona team during this period, Lakidic deserves it.

From 2014 to 2020, Lakitzic achieved the milestone of 0 to 300 for the Rossoneri, along with those indelible contributions.

In the Valverde era, due to the growth of age and the impact of injuries, Lakidic's importance in Barcelona continued to decline, when the team had to face the problem of replacement between the new and the old. Croats who are over the age can only be the one who has been "sacrificed", but even so, Lakidic has no regrets. He has felt the cheers of the Nou Camp and experienced moments of great glory.

I have also expressed my love in six years.

For modern football, too many farewells take place in the summer, perhaps Lakidic himself thought of this day, when waving goodbye to the red and blue, there is 310 games, 35 goals and 42 assists behind the data. There is no doubt that Lakidic and his teammates built an era for Barcelona.

The cry of the Nou Camp faded away, the cheers of Seville seemed like a lifetime away, and at the end of the red and blue story, the 32-year-old man had no regrets.

The teenager out of Basel, the growing man from Schalke to Seville, the national hero who turned from frustrated to triumphant in the plaid regiment, the perpetual motion machine that greeted the glorious time of the Nou Camp.

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Lakidic's career has too many labels, and at the moment he wants to embrace the Sevilla he once loved and write about the romantic moments at the end of his career.

Time is fleeting and Tianya is far away. Nou Camp will remember this man, but the flag-waving publicity has been fixed for the past tense, while in front of the road, the cry of Pisjuan Stadium brings those memories of the old days, the story of Lakidge. Still writing the next chapter.

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