{"id":458043,"date":"2025-09-28T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/458043\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:13:16","slug":"final-retirement-rudi-voller-announces-germany-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/458043\/","title":{"rendered":"Final retirement? Rudi V\u00f6ller announces Germany exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudi V\u00f6ller wanted to give his career another shot when he signed on as the Sports Director of the DFB in 2023. But even for the 1990 World Cup winner, there comes a time to let go: &#8220;After the summer of 2028, it&#8217;s really over,&#8221; V\u00f6ller explained in an interview with &#8216;Stern&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Just in April of this year, the former striker had extended his contract until the European Championship 2028. After the tournament in Great Britain and Ireland, it&#8217;s really over. But can he really stop then? &#8220;I had a long career, I can let go,&#8221; V\u00f6ller also emphasized to &#8216;Stern&#8217;. Well then, we wish Rudi all the best and hope for a very successful remaining time.<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/news\/endgueltiges-karriereende-rudi-voeller-kuendigt-dfb-ruecktritt-an-41729831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 Stuart Franklin &#8211; 2025 Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rudi V\u00f6ller wanted to give his career another shot when he signed on as the Sports Director of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[153510,2000,299,1824,153509],"class_list":{"0":"post-458043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-1990-world-cup","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-rudi-voller"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115282339738905393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}