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Bosnia's Dzeko to end international career after Sweden game next month
Sept 3 : Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko announced on Thursday that he will retire from international football next month, bringing the curtain down on a career spanning nearly two decades.The 40-year-old Schalke 04 forward, who has also played for clubs including Manchester City, AS Roma and Inter Milan, said his final national team appearance would come against Sweden in the Nations League on October 2."Nothing in my career has ever compared to the pride I have felt every single time I wore that shirt," Dzeko posted on Instagram."It was my childhood dream, a dream I carried with me on each of the 151 occasions I had the honour of representing my country on a football pitch ... Almost 20 years have passed since that match against Turkey. "So many things have changed, and I have changed too, but
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