Ben Youngs: England and Leicester great to retire from professional rugby at the conclusion of the 2024/25 season | Rugby Union News

Ben Youngs announced that he would retire from the professional rugby game at the end of the season.

35-year-old Scrum-Half appeared, with thirty-third in Leesester Tigers as an alternative to Easter victory over Bristol Bears.

Youngs, the most -held male player in England with 127 capsules, appeared in the four World Cup for the Rajabi (2011, 2015, 2019, 2023) and the british & Irish Lions round in Australia for the year 2013, and is also a Premier League winner for five times, and three times.

Speaking of his decision to retire at the end of the season, Youngs said: “It is a really sweet feeling.

“This is the strange part, I am using the word” r “, but the matter has not ended today, there is still a lot of the rugby game this season and this is at the forefront of my mind. I did not, let us not write the obituary yet.”

Youngs will look at the sixth Premier League title, with the tigers in second place in the table behind Bath.

“I spent two decades of my life here in the club and I was lucky to be part of some amazing moments along the way, and I enjoyed a lot of success and made life -long memories.”

“That’s all I knew in Club Rugby, Green, Red and PHTH, and all I wanted to know. The idea of ​​playing against this club was not an option for me at all, so I am able to finish one club player, you will be one of my greatest achievements.

“The time will come to thank everyone who helped me achieve what I have, but this is when it ends up. At the present time, it comes to ending this chapter of my life with more success. I haven’t yet.”

Last year, Youngs revealed that he underwent a heart surgery after collapsing during an open training session.

He underwent a two -hour work operation in Birmingham after he was diagnosed with an abnormal ventricular heart tachycardia – an abnormally irregular heartbeat – a condition that he was not aware of for most of his life.

“I had to stop and lie down while my heart was going out, and the rain was beating me in the face,” Yongz said.

“I rolled my head to the side and looked at all these fans of fans – 30 of them – they were all packed in the main position in Leicester. I thought:” This is, so I will go. “

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