Sergio Busquets to retire after 2025 MLS season with Inter Miami

Sergio Busquets announced on Thursday that he will retire from professional football at the end of Major League Soccer’s 2025 season, bringing to a close a near 20-year career that began in Barcelona’s youth ranks and spanned club and international triumphs. The 37-year-old midfielder posted a video montage on Instagram saying he felt the time had come to say goodbye and that he was “retiring very happy, proud, fulfilled, and above all, grateful.” Inter Miami later confirmed the timetable, saying Busquets will finish the campaign, including any playoff matches, before stepping away.

Busquets joined Inter Miami in 2023 after a storied spell at FC Barcelona, where he emerged as the team’s midfield metronome under Pep Guardiola and went on to make more than 700 appearances. He helped Barcelona to multiple domestic and European titles, including nine LaLiga championships and three UEFA Champions League trophies, and won 143 caps with Spain, forming part of the squads that captured the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012. Exact counts of appearances and some trophy totals vary across reports, but accounts consistently describe him as one of the game’s preeminent defensive midfielders.