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  1. Pavilionaire

    Platini- Players cannot retire from international football.

    Go back to the Golden Era of the 60s - we played about 40% fewer matches each year, and half of those were against Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland so positively local. Now players like James Milner and Glen Johnson have racked up more caps than real legends Like Jimmy Greaves and Geoff...
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    Platini- Players cannot retire from international football.

    As a point of consistency, Philipp Lahm announced his retirement from the German side immediately after the World Cup. He is 7 months younger than Ribery. So why no outcry from Platini at that point? Lahm was the captain of the World Champions, a vital cog in the renaissance of the German...
  3. Pavilionaire

    Platini- Players cannot retire from international football.

    Instinctively I feel that an outside body interfering in somebody's very personal decision is just wrong. Why shouldn't Ribery be allowed to give his all to Bayern Munich if he so chooses? They are the ones who are setting him up for life financially. UEFA and FIFA will worry that if high...
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