Berlin, June 4 (STATS Perform/dpa/EP) –
Argentine striker Carlos Tévez announced his retirement from professional football at the age of 38 on Saturday, citing the death of his father as the reason he turned down offers to remain active.
“I’ve retired, it’s confirmed. They offered me a lot of things, even from the United States. But that’s it, I’ve given everything. Playing last year was very difficult, but I could see my ‘old man’. I stopped playing because I lost my number one fan”, explained the ‘Apache’ about the reasons for his goodbye to elite football.
The Argentine had a brilliant career, mainly in England, where he excelled at Manchester United and Manchester City. In addition to his stint at his boyhood club Boca Juniors, Tévez also had spells at Corinthians, West Ham United, Juventus and Shanghai Shenhua.
The forward won a whopping 26 titles in his career and is among only four Argentine players to have won both the CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores and the Champions League, lifting the biggest prize in European club football with United in 2008. .
With the Argentine National Team, the ‘Apache’ scored 13 goals in 76 games, where he played in two World Cups, in 2006 and 2010. In total, the player born in Ciudadela played 607 games throughout his career, where he scored 237 goals and distributed 108 assists.