Lars and Sven Bender play together in Leverkusen.
At the end of the season, the two twins will end their careers.
Lars
and
Sven Bender
are among the most famous
twins
in German football history.
Both come from the youth of 1860 Munich and have been playing
side by side
in
Leverkusen
since 2017
.
In the summer, the twins will also
end
their
careers
because of many injury problems
.
Leverkusen - The twins
Lars
and
Sven Bender will
end their careers after this season.
Her club
Bayer 04 Leverkusen * announced this
on Monday.
The 31-year-olds' contracts are running out, neither of them will renew them.
Bayer will not only lose two regular players in 2021, but also two undisputed leaders.
Lars and Sven Bender announce the end of their career
“After a long period of reflection and countless mind games regarding our future, we finally came to the decision that we will not continue our journey with Bayer 04.
We felt it was our responsibility to communicate this decision to the association at an early stage, ”the twins declared in a joint statement.
It is not a decision “against the association”, but “
for health and the family
.
We realized that it would be difficult to play football at this high level beyond the summer ”.
It is "with all the pain and physical problems increasingly difficult" for them to continuously access one hundred percent, explained the ex-national players, who often suffer from injuries.
In the top game on Saturday against FC Bayern *, the twins were missing, as is so often the case, injured.
Lars is currently out with thigh problems, Sven is troubled by a capsule injury.
"There are only a few players like Lars and Sven in the Bundesliga *", praised sports director
Rudi Völler
: "They stand for footballing class, extreme professionalism and absolute reliability, for willpower and willingness to work." identified “like hardly any other player, emphasized Völler.
Hello Lars, hello Sven!
👋
Lars and Sven #Bender will not extend their respective expiring contracts at Bayer 04 and will end their professional careers at the end of the current season ...
➡️ https://t.co/eFaXoLrKRp#Bayer04 |
#Werkself pic.twitter.com/PLgHtOEcOU
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen (@ bayer04fussball) December 21, 2020
Lars and Sven Bender took silver in Rio
Lars Bender moved
to the Werkself
from
1860 Munich in
2009
and headed Bayer out as
captain
for many years
.
His brother followed him eight years later via
Borussia Dortmund *
.
Since then, together they have formed the heart of the Leverkusen defense.
The Benders remained untitled with Leverkusen, Sven won two championships and two cups * with BVB.
The twins led the German U19 national team to the
European Championship title in
2009 as player of the tournament
and were also used for the DFB-Elf *.
While Sven did not participate in the World Cup or European Championship, Lars was at EURO 2012.
He missed the 2014 World Cup after being nominated for the provisional squad due to an injury.
At the Olympic Games in 2016, they won alongside
silver
in the team from Horst Hrubesch.
(ck / dpa) * tz.de is part of the Ippen digital network
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