French midfielder Gaëtane Thiney to end her 25-year career after this season

Celebrated French midfielder Gaëtane Thiney to end her 25-year career after this season

Playing her first match in the topflight when she was just 14, the attacking midfielder scored 58 goals in 163 matches with France, took part in three World Cups and played a key role in the development of women's football in France.

French midfielder Gaëtane Thiney to end her 25-year career after this season

Former France midfielder Gaëtane Thiney will retire at the end of the season.

Via a message posted on his social networks this Tuesday the iconic captain of Paris FC has recorded the end of his career as a professional footballer.

The Paris FC player announced on Tuesday that she would retire after twenty-five years of career after the season.

A lifelong careerAnette Jensen started playing handball at the age of 9. At that time, there was no handball hall in Langeskov. This meant that they played outdoor handball in the summer until a hall was built in 1967 - at that time she was 13 years old. Since then, she has played for Svendborg HK, among others, and in the mid-70s she was also on the women's national team. She played six games for the A-team and scored one goal when Denmark lost…

At 39, Gaëtane Thiney decided to put an end to her career at the end of the season. A career started a quarter of a century ago when she was only 14 years old. So in Saint-Memmie, the attacker played her first game in the elite in September 2000. Twenty-five years later, the captain of the Paris FC, the current third of Arkema Première Ligue, decided to say stop. "Since my first steps on a field in 1990, football has been my engine, my obsession…