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Former AC Milan and Real Madrid midfielder Kaka announced on December 17, 2017 that he is retiring from football.

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Former AC Milan and Real Madrid midfielder Kaka announced on December 17, 2017 that he is retiring from football.
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The devout 35-year old Brazilian wrote on Twitter: “It was much more than I could ever imagined. Thank you! I’m now ready for the next journey. In Jesus name. Amen.”
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Kaka announced this year he would not extend his contract with Orlando City but he opened the door to a possible return to Milan, the club where he made his name.
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“I would like to participate in the club in another way, as a manager, a sporting director, as someone who is between the pitch and the club,” he said in a farewell interview with Globo TV in Brazil.
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“I prepared very hard to be a professional footballer and I want to prepare for this new role.”
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He said Milan, with whom he won the Champions League in 2007, had offered him a role but did not specify the exact nature of the job or say if he would accept it.
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Milan and his first team Sao Paulo both offered him a playing contract to extend his career, but Kaka, who was in Brazil’s World Cup-winning squad in 2002 and was the last Brazilian to be voted world player of the year in 2007, said the time was right to call it a day.
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"To do it like [Zinedine] Zidane is a good idea," Kaka said to Globo back in October, when discussing his plans for the future.
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"He stopped, took some time away, decided if it was something he actually enjoyed, studied, did a course, built his way up. I'm that way inclined too. Now, there are people who believe I am already ready."
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Brazilian soccer player Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, known as Kaka and his wife Caroline arrive for the Giorgio Armani's Fall/Winter 2008/09 women's show at Milan Fashion Week February 18, 2008. (Reuters/Max Rossi)

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