It is better to leave football before football leaves me. So said, that would be a

VIA this week, that's 37 years old, as he announced his retirement, finishing his career

in January with Visselle Cove, 59 goals in 98 games for Spain.

So look, what is it about Barcelona players being so poetic when it comes to like,

I mean we've had even racketech this week, say, they've taken the ball away from me.

My uncle, when he, my uncle was quite a good Saturday player and he stopped playing football at 30,

basically because he couldn't be able to do it anymore. And I was obviously a lot younger and I

asked him why he just started to stop playing and he said, because I wanted to do it when the

fan said why rather than the fan say why not.

So that's a tribute to my uncle, there's a head of, well in spite of the VIA retiring here.

What kind of legacy does he leave? Where does he sit in the panning of great strikers,

not just for Spain, but in Europe? He's up there amongst Spain's very best and of course I

guess the name for everyone that springs to mind is Raoul. Raoul had a real struggle in the back

end of his career particularly. I think you can still make the argument that he's one of the best

players of modern times, never two of one the battle on door if you want to quantify things in

that sort of context. But David VIA was incredible. And I think in a way if you're going to compare him

to a modern striker and a modern striker who's played for Barcelona in a particularly glorious

period, you may be say T-Ary on re because I think because the time that most people saw him

was not the absolute peak of his powers. He was still great for Barcelona. He's still contributed

heavily. And he was very, very important to them. You could say the same for T-Ary on re, especially

in 2008, 2009 in that first Pep Guardiola season couldn't you? But that's not the absolute peak

of on re. And I think that David VIA at Barcelona is not absolutely the peak of David VIA. I think

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