Barcelona legend announces his retirement from football

The Cameroon internationalwill go down as one of the modern game's most prolificstrikers who left his mark ata number of European giants.View this post on InstagramTHE END VERS UN NOUVEAU DÉFI... Merci à vous tous big love adrénaline A post shared by Samuel Eto'o (@setoo9) on Sep 6, 2019 at 12:15pm PDTHis message simply read:"The end. Towards a new challenge. Thank you all, big love."Eto'obegan his senior career as a teenager atReal Madrid in 1997 and has now seenout his playing days in Qatar with nine goals in 18 games.His move to Mallorca in 2000 ignited a fine career in La Liga, and Barcelona signed him for€24 millionin 2004.He scored 130 goals in 199 matches acrossfiveseasons, winning threeChampions League trophies and scoring in two of the finals.After losing out in Pep Guardiola'sBlaugranarevolution, the Cameroonian joinedInter Milan for the 2010/11 season– and duly became the first player ever to win back-to-back continental trebles.Eto'o then made himself somethingof a journeyman, hopping from Russia (Anzhi),to England (Chelsea and Everton) and Italy (Sampdoria) before settling in Turkey's Süper Lig with Antalyspor.He ends his career with 426 goals in 877 appearences for club and country.READ MORE...The weird reason why Ronaldinho's new job with the Brazilian government is off to a bad startIn defence of Michael Owen: the ex-footballer who just wants to be honest