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Former Barcelona and United keeper Valdes anounces retirement from football and deletes social media accounts to focus on his family life

• Victor Valdes has announced his retirement from football on New Year's Day
• The former Barcelona goalkeeper also deleted all of his social media accounts
• The 35-year-old wants to now focus on his family after hanging up his gloves
• Valdes enjoyed a stellar career with Barcelona and the Spanish national team

By Sam Mcevoy For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 11:10 GMT, 3 January 2018 | UPDATED: 11:21 GMT, 3 January 2018




Former Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes has retired from football and has deleted all of his social media accounts.

The decision came on New Year's Day as the 35-year-old revealed he now wants to focus on his family following his decision to hang up his gloves.

Valdes, who enjoyed a stellar career with Barcelona and the Spanish national team but has been without a club after leaving Middlesbrough in May last year.

The Spaniard reportedly had offers to continue his career, which featured unsuccessful spells at Manchester United and Standard Liege.

Despite this, the Spanish keeper took to social media one final time to say 'thanks for everything' before deleting his twitter and Instagram accounts.

And Valdes is a man of his word after he announced in 2015 that he would delete his social media accounts once his playing days came to an end to focus on his family.

He told RAC1: 'When the light goes out someday, then it will go out and I'll be with my children, teaching them about life.

'But I hope that when the light does go out, it will be hard to find me.'

It remains to be seen whether Valdes will return to football in some capacity.

Valdes' most successful part of his career came at Barcelona, where he won the Spanish league title six times, the Champions League three times and the Copa del Rey twice in his 12 years at the club.

The goalkeeper also helped the Catalan giants to their historic treble in 2009, with Barcelona being the first Spanish team to do so.

The 35-year-old was prolific when on international duty after helping Spain win the World Cup in 2010 and then the UEFA European Championship two years later.

Valdes left the Camp Nou after persistent knee problems but left his mark as one of the club's greatest goalkeepers.

He then completed his move to Man United in 2014 but struggled to replicate the success he had in Spain.

The Spaniard left the Red Devils two years later after having a difficult relationship with Louis van Gaal before ending his career with Middlesbrough.



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【now.com體育】曾效力巴塞隆拿與曼聯的西班牙門將域陀華迪斯，日前宣佈掛靴，翌日就履行承諾，刪除所有社交媒體帳戶，專心陪家人。

去年5月與米杜士堡約滿後一直未找到新球隊的前巴塞隆拿門將域陀華迪斯（Victor Valdes），踏入2018年，終於決定向一眾球迷公佈去向。VV於元旦日在社交媒體上載了一張道路的圖片，並寫上「感激一切」的字句；沒想到，這原來是他的簡單而隆重的告別文。

2周後將過36歲生日的VV，短短1日之後竟然刪除了所有社交媒體帳戶，在互聯網「人間蒸發」——他原來的Facebook粉絲專頁與Twitter帳戶，都變成了「不存在」；而唯一「倖存」的Instagram帳戶裡，所有照片都已經消失得無影無蹤，帳戶亦變成了非公開，只要百多萬追隨他的粉絲仍在。

事實上，VV年前已曾在訪問裡透露，當他退出球址之日，他將會刪除所有社交媒體帳戶，全心全意享受家庭生活。

在巴塞隆拿出道的VV，效力這支西班牙班霸超過10個年頭，總共協助球隊贏得6屆西甲及3屆歐聯冠軍。他2015年1月加盟曼聯，可惜長坐冷板，被外借到標準列治，至2016年夏天約滿離隊，之後轉投米杜士堡。