Eduardo Inda responds to Pique: Childishness & anti-Spanish sentiment led to Spain retirement

It’s not taken Eduardo Inda long to reply to Gerard Pique’s comments on Tuesday. The Barcelona defender called him “Florentino [Perez’s] puppet” ahead of the Champions League game with Manchester City. 

“I’ve read that Twitter, stories in Marca, AS, or Florentino’s puppet forced me out, but it wasn’t like that,” Pique said in reference to his decision to announce he will retire from the Spain national team after the 2018 World Cup. 

Inda, the director of OK Diario, was at his most ironic with his response to the Barça centre-back. 

“Neither a servant nor OK Diario have kicked you out of the national team. Your nonsense, your childishness and your anti-Spanish sentiment has kicked you out. I have not made the people whistle you in training and in matches,” he said in a video blog. 

And he added: “Those people criticise you because you don’t feel the Spanish colours.” 

Eduardo Inda also referred to the supposed independence leanings of Pique — which the player has never confirmed — accusing him of being a money-grabber by playing for Spain. 

“You have all the right in the world to be pro-independence. But that right comes with a consequence. If you don’t believe in Spain, which is very respectable, don’t play for the national team. You go with the national team because you like money more than a fat kid likes cake,” he said.