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Belarusian football player Aleksandr Hleb announces retirement from sport

Aleksandr Hlrb. Archive photo

MINSK, 12 March (BelTA) – Famous Belarusian football player Aleksandr Hleb announced the retirement from sport at a press conference in Minsk after the presentation of the documentary film “Our HLEB”, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Hleb is the best Belarusian football player of the post-Soviet period. He was born on 1 May 1981 and started playing football in the Dinamo Minsk Olympic Reserve School. Since 1999 he played in the FC BATE Borisov and then the German Bundesliga club Stuttgart in 2000. In 2005 Aleksandr Hleb signed up with Arsenal F.C. and three years later with FC Barcelona which won Copa del Rey that year. In 2009 he won the major club competition, UEFA Champions League, as part of Barcelona. He also played for FC Birmingham City, German VfL Wolfsburg, Turkish Genclerbirligi (Ankara) and Konyaspor, and also the Russian Krylia Sovetov (Samara). Aleksandr Hleb played in FC Isloch (Minsk Oblast) last season.

 Aleksandr Hleb played 80 matches for Belarus’ national football team and scored six goals.

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