What does it mean for a football player to announce "hanging up his boots"?

The word "hanging boots" comes from "hanging the crown", as the name implies, that is, hanging up the boots and never wearing them again. It turns out that football, skating, track and field athletes have finished their sports careers and no longer participate in formal training and competitions.

Now it generally refers to people who end their careers and stop their original industry activities in various industries.

In particular, football players with superb skills quit sports teams: hanging up their boots to teach, hanging up their boots to collect mountains and so on.

Sometimes it is also extended to other ball games: the strength of Japanese women's volleyball team is obviously weakened because of the three main players hanging up their boots.

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On the evening of February 25th, 2006, robert pires, a 42-year-old French football player, officially announced that he would hang up his boots. The retirement of Pires also announced the collective curtain call of France's most brilliant' 98 golden generation, who successively won the 1998 World Cup and the European Cup in 2000.

In an interview with the French newspaper L 'Equipe, Pires officially announced his retirement decision: "I am 42 years old and it is time to announce the end of my career. India will be the last stop of my career. "

In fact, as early as 20 1 1, Pires announced his retirement. At that time, 38-year-old Pires turned down the invitation of doncaster, a League One team, but on 20 14, Pires chose to come back. At that time, he was 40 years old and joined the Indian Super League. Today, Pires has been unable to participate in the competition, and he finally chose to retire.

Pires 1993 landed in the professional arena. 1998 moved to Marseille after winning the World Cup, and then joined the Premier League giant Arsenal for 6 million pounds in 2000, starting his legendary journey in Highbury.

In 2002, Pires helped Arsenal win both the League Championship and the FA Cup, becoming the double champion. In 2004, he set an unbeaten record of 49 Premier League matches with Arsenal and helped the team become the first unbeaten champion team in the history of Premier League 1 15.

In the national team, Pires once won the World Cup in France with Zidane and others from 65438 to 0998. Two years later, he won the European Cup for France. Pires played 79 games for France and scored 14.

Robert pires's retirement also marks the farewell of all the golden generations in France in 1998. Many of them began to coach after retiring, such as Zidane, Deschamps, Blanco and Lizarazu.

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China News Network-Football star robert pires officially retired from the French' 98 Golden Generation and hung up his boots.