Diego Forlan announces Uruguay retirement Thursday March 12,2015

 

Uruguay`s most-capped player Diego Forlan(DOB May 19,1979) so often his country`s talisman, announced his retirement from international football on Thursday March 12,2015

The 35-year-old striker played 112 games for Uruguay and scored 36 goals, representing the South Americans at three World Cups and helping them lift the Copa America in 2011

Diego Forlan, who won the Golden Ball as the 2010 World Cup`s best player and finished joint top-scorer with five goals as Uruguay reached the semi-finals in South Africa, insisted he had no plans to quit club football
Diego Forlan was the joint top scorer by scoring five goals at the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Twice against South Africa
once against Ghana in the QF
once against Netherlands in the SF and
once against Germany in the 3rd place play-off