By LeSiteinfo with MAP
German national football team goalkeeper Manuel Neuer announced on Wednesday that he is ending his international career at the age of 38, after 124 caps for the Mannschaft.
“I have decided to end my career with the Nationalmannschaft. Everyone who knows me knows that it was not an easy decision to make,” explained Manuel Neuer, world champion in 2014, in a statement.
The goalkeeper, still under contract for a year with Bayern Munich, therefore played his last match for the national team in the quarter-finals of Euro 2024, in Stuttgart, lost against Spain, 2-1 after extra time.
Trained in Gelsenkirchen, in the Ruhr, at Schalke 04 (2001/05, then professional from 2005), Manuel Neuer had his first selection with Germany on June 2, 2009 in Dubai, a 7-2 friendly victory against the United Arab Emirates.
He established himself as the starting goalkeeper for the Mannschaft in the spring of 2010, just weeks before the start of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Between the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2016, Neuer played in the semi-finals of a major tournament four times, with the World Cup in Brazil in 2014 as his Holy Grail, which he won with a team at the top of its game.
