Retro Football: Fabio Capello Weeps As Marco Van Basten Retires, 1995 (Video)

By Chris Wright

After missing the entire 1993/94 season with a chronic ankle injury, Milan leggenda Marco van Basten was coerced into ruling himself out Holland's '94 World Cup squad that summer and was eventually forced to admit defeat in his bid to recover following several surgeries officially announcing his retirement from the game (aged just 28) on August 17th, 1995 after spending another year in fruitless rehabilitation.

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