Casillas to contest Spanish football presidency after retirement

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Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa said on Tuesday that Iker Casillas is set to retire, a day after the World Cup-winning captain announced he would run for the presidency of the Spanish Foo...

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Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa said on Tuesday that Iker Casillas is set to retire, a day after the World Cup-winning captain announced he would run for the presidency of the Spanish Football Federation.

“Before announcing his candidacy, Iker Casillas came to see me to inform me of his decision to end his career,” Pinto da Costa told Portuguese media on Tuesday. He played 167 times for Spain, also winning two European Championships in 2008 and 2012, and made more than 700 appearances for Real Madrid, with whom he won five La Liga titles and the Champions League three times.

On Monday he said that his aim to “put our federation at the top of the best football in the world, the football of Spain”.

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