Retiring Players Tribute Thread

[Indykaila]

Rather than celebrating the retirement of every player with an individual thread, I have created this thread to house them all. Luca Toni played his last game on the weekend, scoring this beauty past Gigi Buffon.



He's the last of a dying breed in Italy with most of the forwards now being short, agile and quick. One of the slowest strikers of all time and similar to Miroslav Klose in the way he only really started banging them in his late 20's. He regressed a bit this year at 38 years old which is pretty understandable. However, he was leading scorer in Serie A last year aged 37, singlehandedly keeping Verona up. Toni also has a very underrated goal celebration.....I love it.



Post any other noteworthy retirements in this thread.

 

[RossFC]

What's up Bojan?

 

[Indykaila]

What's up Bojan?

Hey buddy,

not much, found myself a job in London, now looking for a place to live. Bloody tough market over here at the moment. Bit bored in the office today so thought i'd jump on BF. I've asked chef to unlock my other account but I don't know how long that will take.

 

[jd2010]

Forum legend BojanKantKick retired

 

[Cruyff14]

Toni peaked late but was a very good forward. Didn't have the largest skillset but what he did, he did well.

48 goals in 95 games between the age 35-38 at Verona - is pretty impressive.

 

[glenferry23]

Bojan returns. Welcome back.

Probably a good thing this thread was created with his alias. Otherwise it'd be moved to The Terrace already.

 

[Jatz]

Great idea for a thread

Hey buddy,

not much, found myself a job in London, now looking for a place to live. Bloody tough market over here at the moment. Bit bored in the office today so thought i'd jump on BF. I've asked chef to unlock my other account but I don't know how long that will take.

Glad to hear things are mostly going well mate

 

[go you pups]

Eliases should never out themselves in the public forum

 

[Cruyff14]

Eliases should never out themselves in the public forum

Who is Elias?

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Who is Elias?

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Who is Elias?

your worst enemy

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Antonio Di Natale has retired. Lovely little player in his pomp. He and Alexis had a very good partnership back in the day. He was able to get the ball to move through the aim in a simliar way to Roberto Carlos. 6th highest goal scorer in Serie A history and scored 191 goals in 385 appearances for Udinese. Here are his top goals:

 

[moomba]

We should just rename this the "Farewell Richard Wright (and a few others that kicked a ball every now and then)" thread.

Or FRWAAFOTKABENAT for short.