2017 has been a year of some busy football which kept the fans on their toes through the likes of UEFA Champions League, Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A, Ligue 1, etc,. We saw the emergence of new prodigies like Pulisic, Mbappé, Dembele, and so on.
But it has been also a year which offered us sorrow with the retirement of a bunch of football legends. Our all time favorites, playmakers, midfielders, defenders, strikers who were able to win UEFA Champions League, World Cup, and so and so.
Here we present the list of few players who we let go through retirement in 2017.
1. Francesco Totti
Teams: AS Roma & Italy
2. Xabi Alonso
Teams: Real Sociedad, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich & Spain
3. Andrea Pirlo
Teams: Brescia, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus, NYCFC & Italy
4. Philipp Lahm
Team: Bayern Munich & Germany
5. Kaka
Team: Sao Paulo, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Orlando City & Brazil
6. Maxwell
Team: PSG, Inter Milan, FC Barcelona, Ajax, Cruzeiro & Brazil
7. Tomas Rosicky
Team: Sparta Prague, Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal & Czech Republic
8. Dirk Kuyt
Team: Utrecht, Feynoord, Liverpool, Fenerbahce & Netherlands
9. Esteban Cambiasso
Team: Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Leicester City, Few Others & Argentina
10. Ze Roberto
Team: Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Palmeras, Many others & Brazil
Valiente Erebus 