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Brazilian star Kaka announces retirement

By AFP
December 18, 2017

RIO DE JANEIR: Former Brazilian World Cup champion Kaka announced his retirement as a player Sunday, suggesting that a management career at his old club AC Milan could be on the cards.“I am preparing to continue in football and to have a different role, but I will no longer be a professional player, an athlete,” he told Globo television.“I would like to take part in a club in a role more like... a manager, a sporting director — someone between the field and the club.” Kaka, 35, said AC Milan “recently made this proposal.” On his Twitter feed, the 2007 Ballon d´Or winner, who was part of Brazil´s 2002 World Cup-winning team, posted a prayer.