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Gerard Pique's Barcelona exit a shock, but he chose to leave his own way

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"Culers, I have to tell you something," he posted at 6.36 p.m. on a grey Thursday evening in November and, just like that, it was over. Twenty-five years after he joined the club where he'd been a member from the day he was born, and 15 years since he played the first of his 615 games in the first team, Gerard Pique announced that it was over. A video, beautifully shot, nicely scripted, cut together with camcorder footage of him as a boy in blaugrana, reclaimed the narrative and bid farewell.