Bayern Munich star Philipp Lahm has decided to retire from international football in the wake of Germany’s successful World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old played a key role in Germany’s world title this summer, making seven appearances to help his side to their first major trophy since Euro 1996 at the expense of Argentina.<\/p>\n
Lahm will not play a role in Germany’s hunt for more silverware, however, having told head coach Joachim Low that he’s no longer available for the national team.<\/p>\n
“I told Jogi Low about my decision to retire from international football on Monday,” Lahm told Sport Bild.<\/em><\/p>\n “I’d been thinking about it over the course of last season. I am delighted that things all came together with this World Cup win.<\/p>\n “I gave DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach a call this morning and thanked him and everybody else at the DFB for the last few years.”<\/p>\n Lahm, who captained Germany since permanently replacing Michael Ballack in 2011, made his official Germany debut in the 2-1 win over Croatia in February 2004 and had since developed into one of Germany’s undisputed star players.<\/p>\n The right-back has made 113 appearances for the freshly crowned world champions and sits fourth in the all-time ranking behind Lothar Matthaus (150 caps), Miroslav Klose (137) and Lulas Podolski (116).<\/p>\n Lahm featured at the European Championships of 2004, 2008 and 2012, as well as at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 World Cups.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Goal.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bayern Munich star Philipp Lahm has decided to retire from international football in the wake of Germany’s successful World Cup campaign. The 30-year-old played a key role in Germany’s world title this summer, making seven appearances to help his side to their first major trophy since Euro 1996 at the expense of Argentina. Lahm will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":32813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[122,29,3],"class_list":["post-32812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-on-demand","tag-bokpin","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}