{"id":199963,"date":"2024-07-15T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/15\/thomas-muller-retires-from-international-duty-after-euro-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T15:39:05","slug":"thomas-muller-retires-from-international-duty-after-euro-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/15\/thomas-muller-retires-from-international-duty-after-euro-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Muller retires from international duty after Euro 2024 \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Thomas Muller has confirmed his retirement from Germany duty following the conclusion of Euro 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Muller made his 131st appearance for his country in the quarter-final defeat to Spain, coming off the bench in a tournament in which the 34-year-old was restricted to just two substitute appearances under Julian Nagelsmann.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old posted an\u00a0emotional farewell video\u00a0on Monday morning confirming he had called time on his international career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I played my first international match over 14 years ago, I could never have dreamed of all this,\u201d Muller said. \u201cAfter 131 international matches and 45 goals, I say goodbye to the German crest today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Muller sits third on Germany\u2019s all-time appearance charts, behind only Lothar Matthaus (150) and Miroslav Klose (137), and also bagged ten goals at the World Cup \u2013 a tournament he won in 2014.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01j2twad8p3863rxhrwp.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Mulle\" title=\"Thomas Mulle\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Muller won the 2014 World Cup \/ PATRIK STOLLARZ\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful that I was able to accompany Thomas for part of his career, with the national team and at FC Bayern,\u201d Nagelsmann said. \u201cIt was a pleasure to work with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas is a passionate professional who is just as passionate about football as he was on the first day. He has enriched our European Championship team not only with his sporting qualities, but also as a leader, a role model, and a figure to identify with. I saw Thomas as a very intelligent player \u2013 football-wise, emotionally and fundamentally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as I regret that he will no longer be with us, I have great hope that Thomas will continue to shape German football in the future \u2013 as a player for FC Bayern and in other roles in the future. We will miss him very much in the national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany have also bid farewell to midfielder Toni Kroos, who retired from football altogether after the Euro 2024 elimination.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-1096-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-892346\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Muller has confirmed his retirement from Germany duty following the conclusion of Euro 2024. Muller made his 131st appearance for his country in the quarter-final defeat to Spain, coming off the bench in a tournament in which the 34-year-old was restricted to just two substitute appearances under Julian Nagelsmann. The 34-year-old posted an\u00a0emotional farewell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thomas Muller retires from international duty after Euro 2024 \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/15\/thomas-muller-retires-from-international-duty-after-euro-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thomas Muller retires from international duty after Euro 2024 \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thomas Muller has confirmed his retirement from Germany duty following the conclusion of Euro 2024. 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