Striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has retired from worldwide soccer, the Gabon federation stated Wednesday.
The federation stated it obtained a letter from the Barcelona striker and Gabon captain on Tuesday informing it of his determination, after enjoying for the nationwide group for 13 years.
The Gabon federation revealed elements of Aubameyang’s letter, the place he thanked the Gabonese individuals, his coaches, teammates and his father, who additionally performed for Gabon within the Nineteen Eighties and 90s.
“Hope to have made him proud by wearing our colors,” Aubameyang wrote in his letter.
The 32-year-old Aubameyang performed 72 instances for Gabon and is his nation’s all-time main scorer with 30 targets. With Aubameyang on the coronary heart of the group, Gabon reached the quarterfinals of the 2012 African Cup of Nations to equal its greatest efficiency in worldwide soccer.
Aubameyang’s final match with Gabon was a bitter disappointment, although, when he contracted COVID-19 initially of this 12 months’s African Cup in Cameroon and needed to withdraw from the match with out enjoying a recreation after being identified with coronary heart lesions.
He introduced his determination to retire from internationals two weeks earlier than Gabon begins its qualifying marketing campaign for subsequent 12 months’s African Cup in Ivory Coast.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
