Rhys Webb announces Wales retirement aged 34

Rhys Webb has go the 3rd Wales seasoned to denote his planetary status earlier the 2023 World Cup.

He has joined chap Ospreys Alun Wyn Jones and Justin Tipuric successful ending his planetary career.

"An accidental to play abroad" amid Welsh rugby's "difficulties" influenced Webb's decision.

After being overlooked by Wayne Pivac, Wales manager Warren Gatland recalled Webb for the 2023 Six Nations and named him successful the nation's extended World Cup grooming squad.

Since past Jones, 37. and Tipuric, 33, opted retired of immoderate planetary future.

Webb wrote: "Having the accidental to play for Wales again precocious has been a immense honour and I americium arrogant to person been named arsenic portion of the World Cup grooming squad.

"However, whilst I would person relished the accidental to extremity my vocation playing for a Welsh region, the contiguous uncertainty and difficulties successful Welsh rugby, meant determination was small accidental for a declaration that offered information for the coming years, arsenic I spot retired my nonrecreational career.

"As such, erstwhile an accidental to play overseas arose during the disconnected season, enabling maine to supply greater vocation information for myself and my family, I decided to judge the offer.

"I consciousness that aft achieving my extremity of returning to the Wales set-up, it is the close clip present for maine to measurement distant from planetary rugby and conscionable bask my past fewer years arsenic a nonrecreational rugby player.

"I'd similar to convey the Ospreys for continuing to judge successful me, adjacent erstwhile my omission from the Welsh squad sometimes had maine doubting my ain quality and Warren, for giving maine a accidental to propulsion the celebrated reddish jersey connected erstwhile again."

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