Goalkeeper Mandanda, another retired from the French team

French international goalkeeper Steve Mandanda announced this Saturday his departure from the national team after 35 internationality and a career devoted mainly to Olympic Marseille.

“You have to know how to stop when necessary”said boss37, in the press conference before the match to be played tomorrow by his current team, the Renneshe is new PSG.

The player indicated that he did not plan to make the announcement today, but was forced to do so after his decision was leaked to L’Equipe newspaper. Moreover, he also had the opportunity to comment on the controversy with Noël Le Graët: “It is not easy to see all that, about the president, we all know that his statements are not applicable to a football legend like Zidanehe said into the microphones.

“There is an audit going on, we will wait until the end to fully discuss it, but that is never good. “An opinion that doesn’t surprise anyone” the veteran goalkeeper likes to add.

Born in Kinshasa (capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo), boss He is part of the French team won the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 runner-up to tasteand has been a regular on national calls since 2008.

A stage in the shadow of Lloris

He admits that the 2018 world title is his best memory of this international stage that is now closing. “It was great, huge,” he recalled. However, in his international career he ran into a wall of Hugo Llorisundisputed holder of the French team from 2009 until recently Qatar World Cup.

boss played fourteen seasons at Marseilleswith a brief one-season entry into the English league (Crystal palace), and currently part of Renneswhich is currently in fourth place in the league 1.

The announcement follows a few days after the end of the international race of cry (36 years old), who announced his decision last Monday, after 142 caps and 123 captaincies (records in both cases in the French team).