Former Barça man Ludovic Giuly (36) announced his retirement form professional football after 19 years playing at the highest level. Giuly arrived at the club in 2004 along with several other big name recruits like Deco and Samuel Eto’o. More after the jump.
Giuly played for Barça over three seasons notching up 122 official appearances and scoring 20 goals along the way. No goal was as important as during the 2005/6 Champions League season in which his sole effort over the 180 minutes against AC Milan pushed FC Barcelona into the final versus Arsenal. He scored that night in Paris too, following up as Eto’o was tripped by Jens Lehmann but the goal was disallowed. Over his Barça career he won one Champions League, two Spanish league titles and two Spanish Super Cups.
Since then Giuly has been at Roma, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Monaco, and most recently Lorient. His final game was two days back (May 26, 2013) versus PSG in which he was taken off to receive the applause of the crowd and handed a commemorative shirt by the capital club.
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