He could have become the first captain to lift the World Cup twice in a row, but Lionel Messi, Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martinez and the staggered got in his way. This Monday, three weeks after the World Cup final in Qatar, the goalkeeper Hugo Loris announced his retirement from the French national teamat 36 and with the record for wearing the ribbon in the most games (121).
“There comes a time when you have to know how to fold”assured Lloris in an interview with the French newspaper The Team. “I don’t want to make it mine, I’ve always said and repeated that the French national team belongs to nobody, and we have to make it like this, me first. I think the team is ready to continue, there’s also a goalkeeper ready ( Mike Maignan)”, he concluded, paving the way for his successor.
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Source: Clarin
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