Bayern Munich legend Ribery retires
Bayern Munich legend Franck Ribery announced his retirement from football at the age of 39, succumbing to a knee injury that kept him out of competition with Salernitana in the Italian league this season.
The former French international wrote through his accounts on social networking sites in four languages, "The ball stops. The feelings inside me do not," and Ribery attached his post with a video summarizing his career with the national team and the clubs he played for.
Ribery has not played with Salernitana, who joined him in 2021 from Fiorentina, since the first stage of this season during the loss to Roma when he entered as a substitute, and rumors of his retirement have been rumored in recent weeks.
Salernitana announced in a statement that he had reached a "joint agreement" to terminate the French player's contract, stressing that he would remain at the club, but in order to play "another role".
Ribery, who was runner-up with France in the 2006 World Cup, played the best days of his career with Bayern Munich, with whom he won over 12 years the league title nine times and the European Champions League in 2013.
Ribery began his professional career with Bologna in the year 2000 and moved between several clubs, most notably Marseille (2005-2007) and Bayern Munich (2007-2019), and over the course of 22 years he achieved 24 titles, 23 of them with Bayern, in addition to the Turkish Cup with Galatasaray. 2005.
Ribery came third in the 2013 Ballon d'Or award, when he led Bayern to a historic trilogy and many critics considered it deserving of it before Cristiano Ronaldo scored it, knowing that the Frenchman won the "UEFA" award for the best player in Europe in the same year.
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