Former Tottenham Hotspur and Real Madrid star Gareth Bale has announced his retirement from football. Bale had captained Wales at the World Cup in Qatar.
Gareth Bale, Wales' all-time top scorer, has won more European Cup / Champions League titles than any other British player in football history.
Gareth Bale scored nine Premier League goals from outside the box during the 2012/13 season, the most ever recorded in a single PL campaign.
Only three men in the awards' 49-year history have won the PFA Players' Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year award in the same season: Andy Gray (1976/77), Cristiano Ronaldo (2007/08), Gareth Bale (2012/13).
And Bale won the 2007 EFL Young Player of the Year.
In 2013, Gareth Bale became the first player in football history to be signed for €100m when he joined Real Madrid from Tottenham Hotspur - 258 games, 106 goals & 16 trophies.
He scored more goals for Los Blancos than R9 and Zizou.
Gareth Bale is the only player in European Cup / Champions League history to score a hat-trick against Internazionale. The first Spurs player to score a hat-trick in the competition.
Let's say goodbye to Gareth Bale, one of the greatest wingers of his generation.