Jérôme Boteng, Getty Images September 20, 2025, 11:25

The former defender of the Munich Bavaria, the English Manchester City and the German national team Jerome Baateng decided to complete the career of the football player.

“Family. Friends. Fans. The time has come,” the 37-year-old German on Instagram wrote.

The last Baateng club was the Austrian grace, which he left in August, this year.

Baateng was most remembered by the speeches for the Munich Bavaria, for which he spent 363 matches, scored 10 goals and made 25 productive gears for ten seasons. In Raten, he won a total of 25 trophies, including 9 victories in the Bundesization and two in the Champions League.

The 37-year-old Central Back at the club level also advocated German Hamburg and Herta, Manchester City, French Olympic Lyon, Italian sallower.

For the German national team, Boateng played 76 matches and scored one goal. In 2014, he became a world champion in the Bundestim.