The goalkeeper of Paris SG Stéphanie Labbé, Olympic champion with Canada last summer, announced on Wednesday that she would retire in the spring after a final match with her national team. “It’s time to talk about the end… But where to start? Sport has been my whole life. Curiosity and my connections have been my mainstays during the 30 years I have spent playing football.”, she said, in a video posted on social media.
“Football has given me a lot of sleepless nights”
“Football gave me a lot of sleepless nights and pain. He destroyed my confidence sometimes. It created depression and anxiety attacks. But curiosity and my connections always brought me back to football.”, she said again.
In a press release published in the process, the Canadian football federation clarified that the goalkeeper planned to play a last “international friendly match in the spring of 2022”.
Labbé has hired for a year, with an option for an additional season, with PSG last August. According to the daily The Parisian , she signed an early breach of contract with the capital club, for reasons mainly related to her mental health. The 35-year-old goalkeeper, named among the three finalists for the Fifa Trophy The Best of the best goalkeepers of 2021, would have explained to Ulrich Ramé, general manager of the women’s section, the reasons for her choice after returning from her winter vacation. . PSG communicated this Wednesday evening having agreed, by mutual agreement with the player, to release Stéphanie Labbé from her last months of contract.
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By common accord, the @PSG_Feminines released @stephlabbe1 of his last months of contract, this one putting an end to his professional career.
Paris Saint-Germain congratulates Stephanie Labbé on her entire career and wishes her the best of success.
— PSG Women (@PSG_Women) January 19, 2022
It is still a blow for the club of the capital which prematurely loses an important player, in a key position, while big deadlines are to come in the Champions League and in women’s D1.
In 2012, the native of Edmonton, passed by American and Swedish teams, had already taken a break with her national team. With Canada, in addition to the gold won in Tokyo, she took bronze at the Rio Games in 2016. She has 85 selections, for 44 “clean sheets”, according to her federation.
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