On July 1, Spanish soccer legend Ennistar terminated his contract with Kobe Victory, and it seems that the 39-year-old "White" is about to end his brilliant career. Despite helping Spain win the 2010 World Cup with a single arrow, he won the "Six Crowns" with his Barcelona teammates in 2009, Ennistar's career is undoubtedly brilliant. So what are these Barcelona players up to now?
Idowu honored as FA president
Idoğu, who left Barcelona in 2009, has played in Serie A, the Russian Premier League, the English Premier League and the Turkish Premier League, and was a player and coach at Antalya in the 2015-16 season.After retiring in 2019, the three-time UEFA Champions League goalscorer was elected president of the Cameroonian Football Federation (Cameroon FA) and is committed to solving the country's recurring problem of age misrepresentation. Earlier this year, Cameroon's U17 team was found to have misrepresented the age of more than 30 players at the U17 Africa Cup of Nations, and Idouo resolutely dismissed them in defense of the dignity of the "African Lions".
Age: 42
Years with Barcelona: 2004-2009
Teams since leaving Barcelona: Inter Milan, Anji, Chelsea, Ewarton, Sundial, Antalya, Goyer, Qatar SC.
Markis coaches Barcelona B
Mexican star Marquise has Barcelona blood in his veins after seven years at the club, and in 2022 he returned to Barcelona as coach of the B team. In the 22/23 season, he led Barcelona B to qualify for the promotion play-offs, and although he ultimately failed to get promoted to Segunda B, his coaching ability has been recognized. Previously, he announced that he had renewed his contract with the club for another year and would continue to lead the Barcelona B team next season. It is reported that Markis is also involved in Barcelona's scouting network in North and Central America, helping to identify potential newcomers in places such as the United States or Mexico.
Age: 44
Years with Barcelona: 2003-2010
Teams since leaving Barcelona: New York Red Bulls, Leon, Verona, Atenas.
Yayatoni steals the show as assistant coach
Yetoni played for Barcelona for three years and did not excel. A move to Manchester City led to the pinnacle of his career, winning the Premier League title three times. The former Ivory Coast international retired from football and went into coaching, working as an assistant coach for Ukrainian side Olimpy Donetsk and Russian side Aikamat. He joined Tottenham Hotspur in August last year as coach of the U16 youth team, before moving to Bundesliga side Standard Liege in June this year as assistant coach.
Age: 40
Years with Barcelona: 2007-2010
Teams he has played for since leaving Barcelona: Manchester City, Olympiagos, Qingdao FC.
Shawy leads club to WAC win
Shawi was Ennistad's best partner in his career, being four years older than Ennistad and leaving Barcelona three years earlier for Qatar's Al Sadd. After retiring from the team, he made the transition to coaching, winning league titles as both a player and a coach, before returning to Barcelona at the end of 2021 to replace the sacked Ronald Gauvin, under whom the team was rebuilt. This season, the team finally made some gains and regained the La Liga title.
Age: 43
Years with Barcelona: 1998-2015
Teams played for after leaving Barcelona: Esade
Mays parachuted into the USHL in a big way
After realizing his dream of winning the World Cup in Qatar last year, he decided to leave Europe after the failure of Paris Saint-Germain's attack on the UEFA Europa League, refused the huge salary from Saudi Arabia, and decided to go to the United States for the sake of his family's future life, accepting the invitation of BECKHAM to join the International Miami. It is reported that the U.S. professional authorities for the arrival of the "king of the ball" canceled the player salary cap regulations, his salary is by the 29 U.S. professional teams crowdfunding.
Age: 36
Years with Barcelona: 2004-2021
Teams played since leaving Barcelona: Paris Saint-Germain
Peyol Joins IT to Develop Virtual Coins
Legendary captain Peyol retired as a La Liga ambassador, often promoting La Liga around the world.In 2019, he and his crowd of partners founded the company Olyseum to develop a virtual world platform that focuses on developing an interactive network between sports stars and their supporters, and even has its own virtual currency. In order to fully develop this emerging business, Peyol moved with his family to settle in Andorra last year to make it easier to take care of the company's business.
Age: 45 years
Years with Barcelona: 1999-2014
Teams played for after leaving Barcelona: Retirement
Henry is determined to take charge of PSG
After winning the UEFA Champions League with Barcelona and announcing his retirement at the end of 2014, Henry took over as assistant coach in Belgium in August 2016, and two years later helped the "Red Devils of Europe" to a third-place finish in the World Cup. However, his subsequent stints with Monaco and the Montreal Impact (now CF Montreal) were unsuccessful. He returned to Belgium as an assistant coach last year, but exited in the group stage. Sources say that if Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) hire Nicolas Swann as coach, Henry will be the assistant, but he prefers to be the head coach.
Age: 45 years
Years with Barcelona: 2007-2010
Teams played for after leaving Barcelona: New York Red Bulls, Arsenal (on loan)
Szdukida joins Mali's charitable cause
After leaving Barcelona in 2012, Szdukida traveled to Asia twice, including joining Chinese Super League side Dalian Ren, before retiring after one season with Qatar's Aichash in the 2016/17 season. After his retirement, the Malian star did not engage in coaching and even faded out of the soccer world, but he was a public-spirited person who donated money to help nearly 600 affected Malian families during the new Crown Pneumonia outbreak, making him a big philanthropist.
Age: 43
Years with Barcelona: 2008-12
Teams played after leaving Barcelona: Dalian, Valencia, Roma, Echazu.
Daniels faces jail time for alleged sexual assault
Daniel "Champion Hunter" left Barcelona twice, first in 2016, then won the Serie A title with Juventus and Ligue 1 twice, the Coupe de la Ligue and the Coupe de la Ligue for Paris Saint-Germain, returned to Brazil to play for São Paulo in 2019, and after two years of playing in a contractual dispute was terminated early in September 2021, and returned to Camp Lu on a free agent in November of that year for a nominal monthly salary of 1 euro before leaving to help Barcelona get back on track. Returned to Camp Lu stadium as a free agent in November of the same year for a symbolic €1 monthly salary, playing for six months to help Barcelona get back on track before leaving. After leaving the team for the second time, Daniel chose to go to the Mexican Premier League to make a name for himself, joining Pumas, but last year he was arrested by the Spanish police, accusing him of sexually assaulting a woman in a nightclub in Barcelona, and he has always denied the incident, and is now in custody of the authorities, Pumas has also announced the termination of his contract.
Age: 40
Years with Barcelona: 2008-2016, 2021-2022
Teams since leaving Barcelona: Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, São Paulo, Pumas.
Abidu's career and family suffer as he's accused of cheating on his wife.
Abidou returned to Barcelona as director in 2018, but was not good at management and had publicly criticized the players for not working hard enough, leading to poor results and trying to shift the blame, which resulted in the dissatisfaction of the then Ballon d'Or winner, Mez, and the two engaged in a war of verbal abuse across the air.In August 2020, after Barcelona lost a 2-8 defeat in the UEFA Europa League to Bayern Munich, the French star took the blame and was sacked. Abidor's private life was also a mess, admitting to cheating on Paris Saint-Germain women's soccer player Keena a year and a half ago, leading to a divorce and a blow to his career and family.
Age: 43
Years with Barcelona: 2007-2013
Teams played for after leaving Barcelona: Monaco, Olympiakos
Guru Shozen witnessed his son's success.
Gudjonsson was only a reserve player at Barcelona and traveled all over Europe and Asia until he retired at the age of 37. In addition to being an assistant coach for Iceland's U21 and national teams, Gudjonsson also served as head coach of Icelandic Premier League team Xanaduia, with mediocre results, winning the Icelandic Union Cup last year. However, Gurjonsson in October of the previous year as an assistant coach in Iceland, in the World Cup outside the home victory over Liechtenstein 4-0 in the game, on the sidelines to witness the two sons, Shi Yun Gurjonsson pass Anda Gurjonsson to build a great success, so that the former Barcelona center was pleased.
Age: 44
Years with Barcelona: 2006-2009
Teams since leaving Barcelona: Monaco, Tottenham Hotspur (loan), Stoke City, Fulham (loan), AEK Athens, Bruges Suco, Bruges, Bowdoin, Cangzhou Lions, Modi, Pune.
Vitruvius betrayed by Laporta
After Barcelona youth product Vitor Valdez (VV) completed his contract, United signed him for 18 months as back-up to Dickiea before retiring after trips to Standardwich and Middlesbrough.VV was Barcelona's U19 coach in 2019, but was sacked three months later. He then coached a Spanish fourth division team, Horta, before resigning in 2021 to assist Laporta in his bid to become Barcelona president, and in return for VV being on the board of directors, Laporta went over the top after his election and only arranged for him to be the goalkeeping coach, which broke up the relationship between the two men and VV has been away from Laporta and Barcelona ever since.
Age: 41
Years with Barcelona: 2002-2014
Teams played since leaving Barcelona: Manchester United, Standardwich, Middlesbrough.
Bikey is active in business and has a colorful life
Bikey, one of the Icon of Spanish soccer, was also one of the contributors to Barcelona winning the La Liga title in the past season. After playing for half a season, he suddenly announced the early termination of his contract and retired in November last year, ending his brilliant soccer career. In fact, Bikey has been actively developing his business empire in recent years, owning his own soccer team, fashion brand, sports media company, gaming company, etc. Moreover, Bikey has been involved in a cheating affair and breaking up with his ex-singer girlfriend Shakira, so it can be said that he has a colorful life.
Age: 36
Years with Barcelona: 2008-2022
Teams played for after leaving Barcelona: retired
Buckeyes follow Mays to USMNT
Bouskis is 5 years younger than Ennistad, who debuted in 2008 just in time for Barcelona's strongest dynasty on the ground, growing up next to strong teammates such as Mez, Xavi and Ennistad, and spending 15 seasons at Barcelona. Bousquist decided to leave the team this summer and follow in the footsteps of Mez, turning down the lure of a huge contract from Saudi Arabia to join USMNT International Myamy, and is about to renew his relationship with Mez and play in the USMNT.
Age: 34
Years with Barcelona: 2008-2023
