Atletico Madrid player Vitsel said on his Instagram account: “After careful consideration, I have made the decision to retire from international football with a lot of emotions. It was a great honor for me to have been able to represent my country for the past 15 years.”
“It’s important for me now to devote more time to my family and focus on my team (…) Good luck to the new generation, who I’m sure will bring us great moments”, the former German player of Borussia Dortmund, was quoted by France Presse.
Witsel has played 130 international matches with the first team and made his debut in 2008 in a friendly against Morocco, which his country lost 4-1, and he scored the only goal for the Red Devils.
With Belgium, he won the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the bronze medal at the expense of England. He was also part of the team eliminated in the first round of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Last March, new Italian-German coach Domenico Tedesco, the Spanish successor to Roberto Martinez, excluded him from the first window of the 2024 European Cup qualifiers, believing that he had not played enough time with him. his club.
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