Lieke Martens He announced, even two weeks ago, that he was saying goodbye to the national football team, leaving him as an international football player at 31 years old. The former FC Barcelona player, now a PSG midfielder, explained that the two matches of Netherlands against Finland, qualifiers for the 2025 Euro Cup, will be his last in the orange shirt.
Yesterday, Martens played his last home game in the victory (1-0) in the first of two games against the Finns. He will also play in the second match later in the half, but not in front of the Dutch fans. For this reason, yesterday, after the game, he was honored and honored: “The feeling is very strange,” he said.
The forward, who has 159 caps and 62 goals since his debut in 2011, won Euro 2017, with the Netherlands as the host team, and was named the best player of the tournament. In the final he scored a goal against Denmark (4-2). Two years later, in 2019, Martens reached the final of the 2019 World Cup in France but lost to the United States (2-0).
Source: La Verdad
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