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		</div><p>Athletic Bilbao striker Aritz Aduriz has announced his retirement.</p>
<p>The 39-year-old needs a hip replacement and the coronavirus pandemic has robbed him of a chance to end his career on a high note.</p>
<p>Arduriz was due to play in an all-Basque Copa del Rey final against Real Sociedad in April.</p>
<p><i>“The time has come. Many times, I have said that football will leave you before you leave it,”</i> the striker, who played for Spain 13 times, wrote on Twitter.</p>
<p><i>“Yesterday, the doctors told me to go see the surgeon, sooner rather than later, to get a prosthetic to replace my hip and to try and go about my everyday life, as normally as possible. Unfortunately, my body has said ‘enough’.</i></p>
<p><i>“I can’t help my teammates the way I would like to, nor the way they deserve. That is the life of a professional athlete. Simple. Very simple.”</i></p>
<p>Aduriz scored 141 goals in 296 appearances for Bilbao, while he also played for Valencia and Mallorca.</p>
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