🚨 Official: Samuel Umtiti calls time on his playing career! | OneFootball

Forever in the history of Les Bleus.

Samuel Umtiti has just announced his retirement this Monday evening in a message posted on his Instagram account.

World champion in 2018 with the French national team, Umtiti is hanging up his boots at 31, three months after the end of his contract with Lille, which he joined in 2023.

Trained at Olympique Lyonnais, where he played 170 matches from 2012 to 2016, Samuel Umtiti suffered a series of injuries over the past seasons, notably after the 2018 World Cup in Russia. A World Cup in which the central defender played as a starter and left his mark for eternity thanks to his goal, from a corner, in the semi-final against Belgium.

At FC Barcelona from 2016 to 2023, where his progress was hampered by injuries; then at Lecce during the 2022-2023 season, Umtiti then joined LOSC and Ligue 1 hoping to revive his career. Unfortunately, he only played 13 matches in two seasons with Lille.

He will forever remain in the history of the French national team thanks to his magnificent 2018 World Cup.

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