Paris (AFP)
The Argentine international Ezequiel Lavezzi, a figure of Paris SG Zlatan Ibrahimovic, announced Friday his sporting retirement at age 34, drawing a line on "the most magnificent period" of his life.
At the end of the contract at Heibei Fortune, in China, the vice-world champion 2014 announced his decision in a message posted on the Internet, accompanied by photos presenting him under the jersey of San Lorenzo, Naples or Paris.
These years on the grounds of Argentina, Europe and China were "marked by unique moments and many memories that will remain in my heart forever," he wrote.
"I will always be grateful to those who have stayed by my side throughout this trip and it is with great joy that I say goodbye to the most wonderful time that life has given me," he says. again.
Lavezzi played more than three years for the Qinghuangdao formation that made him, on his arrival in February 2016, the highest paid player on the planet with an estimated salary of 53 million euros over 23 months, according to the revelations Mediapart as part of "Football Leaks".
Before his golden exile, the "Pocho" evolved between 2012 and 2016 with the PSG (22 goals), being one of the lieutenants of the superstar Ibrahimovic. Preview at the Parisian Marco Verratti's birthday party in early November in Paris, he kept a close connection with the French capital.
In selection, alongside Lionel Messi, he won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 but lost the World Cup final in 2014 to Germany.
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