The only "ball blind filter" in the world is about to retire

. This is not only because Busquets can't get any highlights in 722 games, 18 goals and 46 assists, but also because he is more engaged in the most basic work of football, which can even be summarized as one thing: receive the ball from the backcourt and then distribute it to others.

The most profound football philosophy is often presented in the simplest way. Gradually, people discovered that this tall and rustic man, who seemed to do anything slower than others, could always arrange the most reasonable running trajectory for the ball. Before Tony Kroos was discovered by fans in 2024, Busquets had been working in Barcelona quietly for 15 years.

And when Xavi and Iniesta grew old and left, people were surprised to find that he could not only turn around in circles and get rid of his opponents, but also accurately send the ball to Messi under the opponent's high pressure. The unique skills of "dual cores" in life are not impossible to "professors".

Authentic, Busquets is by no means an impeccable sage. In the second leg of the 2009-10 Champions League semi-finals, he fell to the ground in pain while Mota defended, peeking at the referee's red card from his fingers, which was destined to be a famous scene that could not be skipped in all kinds of highlights; in the first leg of the 2010-11 season, the national derby handball intercepted the opponent's counterattack, which was also one of the few moments he had at the forefront; and with the sharp decline in his athletic ability in his later years and the prevalence of high-level pressing tactics, Busquets has never been absent from Barcelona's previous Champions League tragedy.

But compared to the above black dots, not many of Busquets' career can be criticized, and his style is an unsolved mystery in football so far. When he first debuted, Cruyff bluntly said that he couldn't understand Busquets: "When there is a ball, he makes difficult things easy, and he can get rid of the opponent with just one or two moves; when there is no ball, he will appear in the right position to intercept the ball, and then regain the ball's rights through running. He taught me a lesson."

Can make the "Ball Saint" who read countless people and is almost unpredictable, or at the age of 20, based on this, all Busquets' controversy can only be regarded as jokes after dinner. The retrogrades in the

era, compared to the youth when he got the championship early, Busquets' last moment of his career unfortunately became a loner or even a retrograde in the torrent of the times. "Strike Busquets to death, Barcelona will defeat it without any attack" - the final chapter of Messi's Barcelona career and Barcelona before Flick took office, which is almost a consensus among the opponent.

Due to the decline in physical function and the single midfielder tactic that Barcelona has been pursuing for many years, Busquets, who are highly targeted, often have the will but lack strength. This situation is beyond the Spanish team. In the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, the Busquets Army was beaten to the top 16 by a mess of sticks. Busquets and the whole team are naturally in the same breathing synchronized. The

era seems to no longer welcome Busquets-style players. In Barcelona, ​​De Jong, who has a larger range of activities and stronger running ability, has finally grown from Busquets's follower to a barrier; in the Spanish team, Rodri, who can retreat thousands of miles to defend the enemy and score a goal, has laid a high point with the Golden Ball Award, which is a realm that "Habaibu" has not reached in his entire life.

The Golden Globe Awards ceremony just concluded, the superstars who missed the Golden Globe were once again mentioned by fans, but when the names of midfielders such as Xavi, Iniesta, Sneider and other midfield masters were chanted year after year, no one ever cared whether Busquets was in this sequence.

I'm afraid even Busquets himself may not know about this. In the early years, he didn’t use a smartphone or opened a social media account, but he was a traffic insulator. In the eyes of most players, they are even a bit unsociable if they don’t have tattoos and don’t go to nightclubs.

The soberness in the world is to Busquets, which has adhered to the creed for nearly 20 years, and it is a solid foundation for life transformation. As early as when he left Barcelona, ​​Xavi had concluded that Busquets would return to Camp Nou in the future as a coach, and the elderly Flick retired and returned to the Lamacia system, with almost no suspense.

Enrique, who has coached Busquets and has just been elected the best coach of the UEFA season, publicly supported his old subordinates when he led the team to the Club World Cup this summer: "Among all the Barcelona players I coach, the ones who are most likely to become famous coaches are Mascherano and Busquets." "Brother Ma" also confirmed this in person: "He will definitely coach after retirement, but with his reputation and ability, he will obviously be the head coach directly, rather than as an assistant coach."

In recent years, there have been countless successful players in Spain's retired international team-turned coach: In addition to Alonso, who won the championship without defeat and coaching Real Madrid in the new season, Ilaura, who has made Bournemouth, who has been weak for many years, is a positive example in Cuomo from player to director to coach.

Compared with the extroverted old teammates, in addition to Busquets, who is the captain and referee theory on the court, who rarely speaks on the court, will he also have a sudden attack when he takes the position of coaching like today?