The footballer, who holds the record for the number of selections with the Blues, made it the announcement on Monday in the newspaper “L’Equipe”.
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“There is a time when you have to know how to pass the hand.” By these words, Hugo Lloris, 36, announced on Monday January 9, In the newspaper L’Equipe , his decision to end his international career. The goalkeeper and captain of the French football team, world champion in 2018, holds the record for the number of selections with the Blues: 145.
“I prefer to go out by being at the highest than waiting for a drop in regime, or the competition too much,” he said, a few weeks after France’s defeat against Argentina in the final of world Cup. “It is not easy to announce this, but after fourteen years to defend this jersey, which I carried with immense pleasure, with pride, duty and sense of responsibility, I think I arrived at the end” , says Hugo Lloris.