Jared Borgetti calls time on career
Reuters - Sunday 05 December 2010, 22:32
MEXICO CITY - Former Mexico striker Jared
Borgetti, the national team's record marksman with 46 goals in
89 internationals, has quit football after a 16-year career
spanning 12 clubs.
The 37-year-old "Desert Fox", who played for Mexico at the
2002 World Cup where he scored two goals and 2006 finals in
Germany, made the announcement on Mexican television on Sunday.
"I'm not retiring from football," he said. "That I won't
play any more professionally is another matter, but football
I'll play all my life."
Borgetti, who began his career at Atlas in 1994 and is the
third highest scorer in the Mexican league with 252 goals, had
spells abroad with Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier
League and Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia.