Personal information
Full name Fabien Alain Barthez
Date of birth June 28, 1971
Place of birth Lavelanet, France
Height 1.80 m / 5 ft 11 in
Position Goalkeeper, retired
Full name Fabien Alain Barthez
Date of birth June 28, 1971
Place of birth Lavelanet, France
Height 1.80 m / 5 ft 11 in
Position Goalkeeper, retired
Barthez calls time on career
05/10/2006 - 21:44:20
Fabien Barthez has retired from football, it was announced tonight.
“I am quitting the French team, I am quitting club football,” he said on French television channel TF1.
The 35-year-old former Manchester United goalkeeper, whose last game was Les Bleus’ World Cup final defeat to Italy this summer, has been without a club since he was released by Marseille at the end of last season.
The mercurial Barthez, who has also played for Toulouse, Monaco and Manchester United in an illustrious career, added: “I am going to continue enjoying myself without football.”
Aside from the World Cup triumph in 1998, Barthez also won the European Championship with France in 2000, while he kept goal for Marseille when they lifted the European Cup in 1993.
That title has since been stripped from the Mediterranean giants after they were found guilty of match-fixing and bribery.
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