“The end of a beautiful chapter of my life”… Ribéry formalizes his retirement

“The ball stops but not my feelings for him.

It is with this message that Franck Ribéry formalized his retirement from sport on Friday, announced last week by

and Italian media.

The former player of the France team, OM and Bayern, 39, who had been playing at Salernitana since 2021, would have pushed a little more but his knee and the doctors told him to stop.

“The pain in my knee has only gotten worse and the doctors are clear: I no longer have a choice, I have to stop playing.

So I have to put an end to my career as a professional player, ”he explains.

The ball stops.

The feelings inside me do not.

✨

Der Ball ruht.

Die Gefühle in mir nicht.

✨

The ball stops but not my feelings for him.

✨

It pallone if closed.

Le emozioni dentro di me, no.

✨

Thanks to everyone for this great adventure.

🙏🏼#FR7 #Elhamdulillah pic.twitter.com/Ku4i1MeEbE

– Franck Ribery (@FranckRibery) October 21, 2022

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“Thank you Frank!

“Launched in stride, and in French, Bayern Munich on its website.

The German club salutes "a true legend of FC Bayern", with whom Ribéry won a Champions League, nine championships, six German Cups and a Club World Cup in 12 seasons.

“It's the end of a beautiful chapter in my life, that of the player, but not the end of my professional history, you can be sure of that.

So I say see you very soon for the start of a new beautiful chapter, ”added the Boulonnais in his message.

This new page, he will begin to write it at Salernitana, where he arrived after two years at Fiorentina (2019-2021).

“We will give him a role, whatever he wants”, either in the management or in the technical supervision surrounding the Serie A team, said the boss of the Italian club Danilo Iervolino on October 9.

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