Gerard Piqué: "I broke my face for Spain. Long live the king!"

Gerard Hammered arrived to the FC Barcelona in summer of 2008 pertinent of the Manchester United and did not take too much in turning into a key player in the diagrams of Pep Guardiola. At the side of Carles Puyol, formed one of the best pairs of head offices of the history, something that also repeated in the Spanish selection that proclaimed champion of the World-wide in South Africa, in the year 2010.

In an interview for L'Esportiu, remembered the sucedido. "In the first party opened me the eyebrow, in the second the lip, and in two days, in a training, gave me a pelotazo in the mouth and opened me again the lip. Memory to Vicente of the Forest saying: 'But what bad luck that has this boy'. But yes: I broke me the face by Spain. It live the king!", it manifested.

"It was a big party; I happened it to me of cojones"

For I Hammered, this summer was unforgettable so much in the professional as in the personal. Regarding the football, achieved to raise the World-wide whereas, in his personal life, knew to Shakira, with which forms couple since. "I won the biggest title that one can achieve and knew the love of my life. I went out of South Africa being a different person and lived an unforgettable experience", said.

The vertebral column of this Spanish selection was composed, in his majority, by players of the FC Barcelona,​ but Hammered recognised the merit to which were not Barcelona. "We were many, but would be unfair to ignore to Iker Boxes, Sergio Bouquets, Villa... Man, is truth that were majority, that Xavi had a lot of influence in the game, but always have thought that had of everything. A lot of quality and variety", remembered.

The Catalan defence commented that it was a team without leaders, since the secret was the conjoint work and the good roll. "What did not have was a big star. That selection is the best example that above a crack always there is the team. We did not have a leader, there was Iker, Xavi, Puyi; between them three, that were the veterans, worked it to him, but there was not a leader. And another thing that will say him all the world: good roll", sentenced.

What changed after this World-wide

Also they ask after him the things that changed in his life after that World-wide: "That I was father for the first time, for the second time... And little thing more because already it had won it everything... Win the Eurocopa". Regarding Shakira, desveló that "knew It before the World-wide and said him that we would see us in the final. I always so brave".