"Going from playing professional football to not even being able to play with your friends is complicated, very complicated," Joan González (Barcelona, ​​​​2001) confesses to ARA. May 26, 2024, was the last game of the Catalan midfielder's career. A goalless draw on the final day of Serie A at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium reaffirmed the good season for Lecce, the team from a city located at the heel of the Italian boot. González came on in the 56th minute, replacing Swede Pontus Almqvist, little imagining that these would be his last moments as a professional footballer.