NFL – ESPN announces the retirement of Tom Brady
ESPN announces the retirement of Tom Brady
At 44 and after 22 seasons in the NFL, the seven-time Super Bowl winner is about to end his career. The player has yet to formalize his decision.
Tom Brady has won the Super Bowl seven times.
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Star Tom Brady, seven-time Super Bowl winner and considered the best quarterback in the history of American football, will retire at 44 after 22 seasons in the NFL, several American media reported on Saturday.
Brady, who was crowned champion last year with Tampa Bay, after six crowns in 20 years with the New England Patriots, will hang up his cleats and store his helmet, say ESPN and NFL Network. The player has yet to formalize his decision.
Asked by ESPN, his agent Don Yee said that the star himself “will be the only person to express his plans with complete accuracy. He knows the realities of the American football world and the timing that that entails better than anyone, so it will be soon. » In the meantime, the tributes began to rain. “Thank you Tom”, accompanied by the initials “GOAT”, the initials of “The Greatest of All Time” (the best of all time), thus tweeted the NFL. « Thank you for everything big brother, it was an honor, » wrote on this same social network Mike Evans, his teammate at the Bucs.
In 2020, the quarterback left the Patriots, after twenty years of an already sensational career, to join the Buccaneers, then one of the weakest teams in the NFL, which had not qualified for the play-offs since 2007. Against all odds, he took them to the top, beating the Kansas City Chiefs, Brady then collecting his 7th title for his 10th final.
In search of an eighth ring – a second with the Buccaneers – he saw his dream crumble last Sunday in the 30-27 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, despite an incredible comeback as his team trailed 27-3 in the third quarter.
Brady was named five times MVP (best player) of the Super Bowl, three times of the regular season and has among many other records, that of the number of yards covered in the pass.
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