{"id":802106,"date":"2025-03-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/?p=802106"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:43:00","slug":"franck-ribery-the-sad-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/europa\/franck-ribery-the-sad-end","title":{"rendered":"Franck Rib\u00e9ry, the sad end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Retired since October 2022, after a final stint at Salernitana, Franck Rib\u00e9ry narrowly escaped a terrible tragedy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s now been more than two years since Franck Rib\u00e9ry ended his career. A somewhat anonymous end to his career at Salernitana, the 41-year-old French winger had piled up trophies in his prime, playing for Bayern Munich in Germany. He notably came close to winning the Ballon d&#8217;Or in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But &#8220;Kaiser Franck&#8221; doesn&#8217;t regret his farewell to the pitch, for the simple reason that his body couldn&#8217;t take it anymore. &#8220;My knee hurt more and more,&#8221; he said in a recent interview with L&#8217;Equipe. &#8220;I was no longer training between matches but rather recovering to protect myself. I would take two days off, then three or four.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I lost my rhythm to save myself. Then the tests revealed that I no longer had any cartilage,&#8221; continues the former French international (81 caps). &#8220;I went under the knife in Austria. The operation went well, with the placement of a plate inside.&#8221; The rest was much less rosy, with the former Marseille player even nearly having his leg amputated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Franck Rib\u00e9ry: &#8220;They could have amputated my leg&#8221;<br>&#8220;I had a serious infection almost five months later. For two months, I took pills. They removed the plaque. The infection had eaten away at me. It was so bad that I had holes in my leg,&#8221; says the Boulogne native. &#8220;I had contracted Staphylococcus aureus. I was in the emergency room at the hospital in Austria for twelve days. I was really scared.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired since October 2022, after a final stint at Salernitana, Franck Rib\u00e9ry narrowly escaped a terrible tragedy. It&#8217;s now been more than two years since Franck Rib\u00e9ry ended his career. A somewhat anonymous end to his career at Salernitana, the 41-year-old French winger had piled up trophies in his prime, playing for Bayern Munich in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":802107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[1822],"class_list":["post-802106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europa","tag-franck-ribery-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/NOUVEAU-POUR-SITE-24.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfmZoa-3mFc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802108,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802106\/revisions\/802108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}