The new season has barely begun, and we already have our first retirement - Wojciech Szczęsny announced that his time with Juventus and football in general is over. After an incredible period, he decided to call it quits and plunge into other pursuits. Before the start of a new active phase of European football, OBOZ.
UA recalls the best players who decided to hang up their boots over the past year. The stars of their time, who pushed other goalkeepers The 37-year-old English goalkeeper Joe Hart ended his professional career this season at Celtic. Before that, he had a path that many top-level goalkeepers would envy.
Hart was one of the founders of the City we know today. In the Citizens' off-prime years, he won the Golden Glove several times and then helped to take the legendary championship with Aguero and company. Joe had his own problems - he could get carried away and deliver.
But the number of stunning saves he made outweighs this feature of the goalkeeper. The other day he returned to City and met another legend. Buffon and his incredible career are worthy of more than one movie.
The Italian seemed to be an eternal player who would never finish. The noughties (and then the tens) were strongly associated with reliability, and in combination with other field players, Gianluigi was capable of real feats. He won two dozen cups with Juventus, but never won the Champions League.
He made many attempts to save Parma, but was injured in the decisive match. Until the last minut.