MLS - Clint Dempsey announced his retirement

"After a long thought, we decided to go with my family, this is the right moment to say goodbye to the game, and I was always dreaming of playing football as a pro." I was grateful I could go this way, "said his last career in the North American profile (MLS) published on the website of Seattle Sounders FC, is the 35-year-old offensive player.

Dempsey began his adult career with New England Revolution in 2004, spending seven seasons in Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, and finally in Seattle in 2013.

With Fulham's team - Zoltán Gera's team-mate - in 2010 he was a European-league finalist, and in the next two seasons the team's home goalkeeper became both the best player at the club.

In the United States, he scored 57 goals in 141 games, the latter being a US record with Landon Donovan. After three seasons, the best of his country was elected, the Golden Cup of Gold and Silver, the Confederation Cup with a silver coin, and he was the Golden Goal of the 2015 World Cup.

Of the American footballers, Dempsey scored the most goals in the top of the line, and he is the only one in the United States in three consecutive world championships (2006, 2010, 2014).

Two years ago he was diagnosed with heart failure, but after being re-authorized by his doctors, he returned to the field.

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