Terry: Lampard Pemain Terbaik Chelsea Sepanjang Masa

Bola.net - - John Terry mengatakan Frank Lampard merupakan pemain terhebat sepanjang masa yang pernah dimiliki Chelsea. Pujian tersebut disampaikan mengiringi keputusan Lampard yang baru saja memutuskan pensiun sebagai pemain sepakbola.

Lampard, 38 tahun, sudah menjalani kariernya sebagai pemain sepakbola selama 21 tahun mulai dari West Ham, Chelsea, Manchester City dan yang terakhir di New York City FC. Di antara klub di atas, Chelsea adalah klub yang paling lama dibelanya yaitu selama 13 tahun.

Pada tahun 2014, ia meninggalkan Chelsea sebagai top skor sepanjang masa. Dan selama menjadi pemain, Lampard pernah merasakan tiga kali juara Premier League, empat kali juara FA Cup, dan sekali juara Liga Champions pada tahun 2012.

"Pemain terhebat dalam sejarah klub sepakbola kami. Kenangan indah menjuarai trofi demi trofi bersama, tahun demi tahun yang tak akan saya lupakan. Anda telah menjuarai segalanya dan pasti sangat bangga," tulis Terry di akun Instagram-nya.

"Senang dan merasa terhormat bermain dan menjalani saat-saat indah bersama Anda."

"Gentleman di atas dan di luar lapangan, pemimpin di ruang ganti dan jika saya memilih orang di samping saya di parit itu adalah Anda," jelas Terry dalam petikan kalimatnya.

@franklampard has today announced his retirement from football. The GREATEST player in the history of our great football club @chelseafc It was an absolute pleasure playing with you mate and seeing first hand the dedication and hard work you put in, on and off the pitch, the best trainer by a million miles every single day, inspiring me and everyone at the club. I miss you next to me in the dressing room and miss you grabbing a bag of balls after training when everyone went inside. You stayed out working on your finishing, 20 goals a year wasn't good enough for you, every year you wanted 25,30 goals I love that about you ⚽️👊🏻 I will miss you getting 4 cones and doing sprints after training 🏃🏻💨 setting the example for the kids in the academy. All the great memories together winning trophy after trophy year after year I will never forget 🏆 you have won everything and should be extremely proud. It's been my pleasure and honour to play and experience all those great moments with you. 648 appearances ( we nearly caught Peter Bonetti and Ron Harris 😜) 211 goals ⚽️ unbelievable achievement 👊🏻 A gentleman both on and off the pitch, leader in the dressing room and if I could choose one person next to me in the trenches it would be you. A great dad to your two beautiful girls and I'm proud to call you my mate Good Luck for the future, whatever you choose to do will be a huge success Love Ya Lampsy 💙 LEGEND HERO INSPIRATION + THE BEST EVER

A photo posted by John Terry (@johnterry.26) on Feb 2, 2017 at 6:30am PST

Selain Terry, mantan pemain Chelsea Didier Drogba juga memberikan pujian pada Lampard lewat akun Instagram-nya.

"Siapa lagi????? Terima kasih Frank Lampard top skor sepanjang masa Chelsea," tulis Drogba.

What else?????? Thank you @franklampard All time goal scorer of @chelseafc A Gentleman with true values I've been honored to play and spend so many years next to him. I've learnt so much at practices with you but even more when we were staying after training trying to find ways to score more goals!!! I could continue writing to tell all the stories, the goals the fun the difficult moments we shared but I'm just gonna say Thank you LEGEND ❤️ 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 🐐 🐐 🐐 #historymakers #theimpossibles #chelseafc #captain #leader #alltimechelseatopscorer #superfrank

A photo posted by didierdrogba (@didierdrogba) on Feb 2, 2017 at 6:52am PST