He wasted his country's joy from the penalty mark.. So he retired from playing directly!

Turkish striker Burak Yilmaz decided to retire from international football, immediately after his country's exit from the semi-finals of the European qualifying play-off for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with a 1-3 loss to Portugal on Thursday in a meeting in which he missed a penalty kick when his country was trailing 1-2 in Porto.

Captain Yilmaz said in the press conference that followed the match, "It was my last match (in the national team shirt), expressing my "sadness" that his international career ended in this way.

The 36-year-old had the goal of reducing the difference for his country in Thursday's match in the semi-finals of the third track of the continental supplement After Portugal advanced with two clean goals, then he had a chance to equalize, but he failed to translate the penalty kick 5 minutes before the end.

The French Lille striker, who played a major role in leading the latter last season to the league title for the first time since 2011, commented on his missed penalty, saying, "I think I will wake up at night until the end of my life thinking that I should have scored this penalty."

Yilmaz was part of the Turkish national team's squad for the 2016 and 2020 European Cups. During his career, he played 77 international matches, during which he scored 31 goals.

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