Amazing list of greats who ended playing career this year.
As 2014 nears an end, there looks like being a great deal to reflect on in football this year, not least the retirement of some of the game’s truly great players for the last couple of decades.
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Arsenal’s Thierry Henry leads the list of recently-retired players who called time on their careers in 2014, with a number of other big names to get you nostalgic for the good old days!
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8) Juan Sebastian Veron
7) Juninho
6) Rivaldo
5) Clarence Seedorf
4) Javier Zanetti
3) Carles Puyol
2) Ryan Giggs
1) Thierry Henry