Farewell game: Michael Ballack goes with gates and tears

Hamburg - Michael Ballack had it in his career rarely so easily as in this evening in Leipzig. After 20 minutes, the former captain of the German national football team on goal went to, the Defender Michael Essien and Ricardo Carvalho could provide him with a smile. Goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller was no effort to hold the subsequent shot.

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The opponents treated each goal Ballack in his farewell game. At the end, he had met three times in a 4:3 (1:2) between two teams of friends and companions, with Ballack career finally ended 13 months after his last appearance in the Bundesliga.

The man of the evening was afterwards severely touched: "I had taken me in, not to cry. But that you can not avoid,"Ballack said - a few tears flowed. "It was a great career for me, even though there have been difficult times."