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Gerard Pique Offers to Quit Spain Team Amid Catalan Referendum Troubles

Barcelona defender Gerard Pique was reduced to tears after his side beat Las Palmas 3-0 in a behind-closed-doors La Liga match on Sunday, the same day hundreds were injured attempting to vote in Catalan's independence referendum. The veteran also offered to quit Spain's national team if his stance on the matter becomes an issue.

Rather than have their fixture postponed, Barca were forced to play in front of an empty Camp Nou. Although the hosts emerged 3-0 victors, a teary-eyed Pique described his pain hearing reports Spanish police had injured more than 460 people, per MailOnline's Pete Jenson:

"There was no act of aggression from the people today and yet the police have acted in the way that they have acted today.