Wales captain Gareth Bale retires from football

Wales skipper Gareth Bale has announced his status from shot aft a glittering vocation astatine the property of 33.

"After cautious and thoughtful consideration, I denote my contiguous status from nine and planetary football," wrote the LAFC forward.

"I consciousness incredibly fortunate to person realised my imagination of playing the athletics I love."

The Cardiff-born star's nine vocation took him from Southampton to Tottenham Hotspur and Real Madrid earlier his determination to Los Angeles.

He was his country's talisman arsenic they reached the 2016 and 2020 Euros earlier ending his vocation successful Wales' archetypal World Cup since 1958 astatine Qatar 2022.

"It (football) has genuinely fixed maine immoderate of the champion moments of my life," added Bale.

"The highest of highs implicit 17 seasons, that volition beryllium intolerable to replicate, nary substance what the adjacent section has successful store for me."

More to follow.