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FIFA World Cup: Xabi Alonso quits international football: reports

Updated on: 22 June,2014 01:52 AM IST  | 
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Sports daily Marca has reported that Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso has retired from international football after Spain's elimination from the FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup: Xabi Alonso quits international football: reports

Xabi Alonso. Pic/AFP

Madrid: Sports daily Marca has reported that Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso has retired from international football after Spain's elimination from the FIFA World Cup.

Xabi Alonso. Pic/AFP
Xabi Alonso. Pic/AFP 


Marca says the 32-year-old planned this move for some time and the decision was not a "knee-jerk reaction to the event in Brazil. Far from it, he had long known that summer 2014 would mark the end of his international career", reports EFE.


Alonso has played for Spain's first team since 2003. By scoring 16 goals in 113 matches, he helped the team to win two Euros in 2008 and 2012 and the 2010 World Cup.


The Real Madrid veteran drew criticism when he admitted that Spain had lost their way following their World Cup knockout.

"We couldn't maintain that hunger, that ambition. We weren't mentally prepared or physically fit enough," he said after Spain got eliminated from the World Cup.

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