Time to say goodbye as World Cup concludes

AU revoir Zizou. Adeus Luis Figo, Roberto Carlos and maybe Ronaldo. Goodbye Claudio Reyna. Auf wiedersehen Oliver Kahn and ciao Alessandro Del Piero.

If we don’t see you again David Beckham, it’s been grand.

As soccer’s greatest spectacle ends, so do the World Cup careers of many of the game’s biggest names. Some, like Zinedine Zidane and Roberto Carlos, have already said this was it. Others, like Beckham and Ronaldo, are already starting to slow and aren’t likely to be around when the World Cup kicks off in South Africa four years from now.