Veteran Bosnia and Herzegovina captain Edin Dzeko announced on Thursday that he would retire from international duty after October’s Nations League match against Sweden.
The forward, who plays for Schalke in Germany’s Bundesliga, turned 40 in March.
“Now I feel the time has come to step aside,” Dzeko said on social media.
“If I have made it to the age of 40 with the national team, it is because I truly gave everything I had. Every time. Everything.”
He is known by the country’s fans as ‘Dijamant’, which means ‘diamond’ in Bosnian.
