The world did not end. It just got… weird.
Retiring from professional football at the age of eighteen, just months after signing a world-record contract and winning the Champions League, was not a normal career trajectory.
The media reaction was less a news cycle and more a global, collective meltdown.
Pundits debated his sanity.
Fans created elaborate conspiracy theories involving secret injuries, alien abductions, and a potential career switch to competitive cheese rolling (that last one might have been started by Julián Álvarez).
Leon's phone became a digital paperweight, so overwhelmed with messages, notifications, and interview requests that it basically just vibrated constantly, a low, angry hum against his bedside table. He turned it off.
