Gareth Bale participated in the ‘Farmers Insurance Open Pro-Am’ and there he met John Rahm. The golfer had a conversation with the former Welsh footballer and Gareth left this comment about Madrid in a relaxed atmosphere.
Gareth Bale, statements
It was at the time that Rahm met Gareth Bale.
The Spanish golfer greeted him and, first, asked him about his withdrawal. Later, John Rahm asked him if he missed the time in Madrid, to which Gareth Bale, between smiles and in a moment of complicity, replied: “I miss him a little …
but not too much.” Rahm, who later shared nine holes with Bale in the Pro-Am before the Farmers Insurance Open, admitted to the media: “I told Gareth that ‘you can’t be that good at professional football and golf at the same time.
“It just doesn’t seem fair to me. You can’t just do one thing and have that much talent for golf. It’s not fair at all.” Gareth Frank Bale (born 16 July 1989 in Cardiff) is a Welsh former footballer who played as a forward. Considered one of the best footballers of his generation, grew up in the youth academy of Southampton, a team with which he made his professional debut.
In the summer of 2007, at the age of eighteen, he moved to Tottenham, with which he established himself as one of the most promising talents of his generation, winning an English League Cup and, individually, twice the PFA’s Best Player of the Year (2011 and 2013).
In the summer of 2013 he moved to Real Madrid for a total of 100 million euros,[8] which made it, at that time, the most expensive purchase in the history of football. With the Spanish team he won three Spanish league titles, one Copa del Rey, three Spanish Super Cups, five UEFA Champions Leagues, three UEFA Super Cups and four FIFA Club World Cups.
With the Welsh national team, of which he is the record holder for appearances and goals, he has participated in two editions of the European championship (2016 and 2020) and one of the world championship (2022). On 2 June 2022, for sporting and humanitarian merits, he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II as a member of the Order of the British Empire.
