Following Conca, Gaulart and others, another legendary star in the history of Guangzhou Evergrande announced the decision to retire. Recently, former Italian international and Guangzhou Evergrande foreign aid Diamante announced on his personal social platform that he had officially decided to retire, ending his 23-year playing career.
Speaking in his retirement declaration, Diamante said: "Saturday's game will be my last as a player. I have a lot to say and a lot of people I want to thank, but in the end I want to end it all simply. I've always been a happy person and I've always wanted to follow the most essential values of football. I'm not a player with hundreds of trophies, but I believe I'm a player to be loved. To be loved by the fans is my biggest win as a player. ”
At this point, the 40-year-old Diamanti officially announced his retirement decision. Diamanti landed in the Chinese Super League as early as 2014, when he joined Guangzhou Evergrande with the title of current Italy international, and was regarded as a substitute for Conca and a member of Lippi's favorites, with a transfer fee of more than 8 million euros. In the opening stages of Evergrande, Diamante performed quite impressively, and single-handedly helped the team to get off to a good start in the AFC Champions League. Although after that, due to technical and tactical style problems, Diamante and Evergrande have always been unsatisfactory, but they still eventually led the team to win the Serie A championship that year.
After that, with the departure of Lippi, who brought him to the Chinese Super League, and the arrival of Goulart, Diamante began to be on long-term loan by Evergrande until the official end of his contract with the team in 2016. In 2019, the 36-year-old Diamanti joined Australian team Western United, thinking it was a retirement, but in Australia his performance was quite amazing, becoming the most popular player in the region, and now officially ended his career, the legendary veteran has finally stopped moving forward.