After exiting Real Madrid in 2021 — spending a remarkable 16 years with the Spanish club — Sergio Ramos spent the next two years hunkered down writing and producing music. It was then that “Cibeles” was born — an ultra personal song, a love track at its core, about his bittersweet departure from the Spanish soccer team after 16 seasons and 22 titles.

“I hope you do well, although without you I feel bad,” the 39-year-old soccer star sings evocatively over an Afrobeat-tinged rhythm.

“It’s very emotional, sentimental, it’s a love story, about everything I’ve experienced over many years with the best team in the world, and well, it tells a little bit about how I felt at that moment,” Ramos tells Billboard over Zoom, just days after releasing the Ovy on the Drums and Yeray Music-produced sing

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