Luís Fabiano announced, this Saturday, the end of his career. Without a club since 2017, when he left Vasco da Gama, the 41-year-old forward decided to hang up.
“The time has come. In the last four years I’ve struggled a lot against my body to get back to what I love the most: playing football. I fought until the end, but I didn’t win. The pandemic pain we went through didn’t allow me», he vented, in a video posted on social media.
Graduated at Ponte Preta, Luís Fabiano has spent a short time in Portugal. In 2004/05 he represented FC Porto, playing 27 games and winning a Super Cup and an Intercontinental Cup. São Paulo (Brazil), Seville (Spain), Rennes (France), Tianjin Tianhai (China) and Vasco da Gama (Brazil) followed. In its history it has two Europa League, a South American Cup, a European Super Cup, two King’s Cups and a Spanish Super Cup.
A Brazilian international in 45 games (he scored 28 goals), Luís Fabiano participated in the 2004 Copa America conquest and was in the squad for the 2010 World Cup.
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