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<H2>Deisler hangs up boots</H2>
<DIV class=subarticleHead>By Alex Dunn & Sam Hez - Created on 16 Jan 2007</DIV></DIV><!--<br> clubtext=<br> channeltext=<br> comptext=<br> defaulttext=220429<br> hlid=220429-->
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<H2>Sebastian Deisler has drawn the curtain on a career full of promise but one that ultimately was plagued by fitness and psychological problems. </H2>
<H2>The Bayern Munich and Germany midfielder has decided that a long-standing knee injury is unlikely to ever heal sufficiently for him to show his full ability and thus, at the age of 27, he has called time on his playing days. <br>Deisler was once heralded as his country\'s great hope but a catalogue of injuries, when coupled with bouts of depression, all too often undermined his undoubted talent. <br>His knee curtailed any involvement in the World Cup in the summer and it is this injury that Deisler feels is one too many. <br>\"I have no longer any real faith in my knee,\" said Deisler. \"In the long run it\'s been an ordeal.\" <br>Once regarded as Germany’s most promising young talent, the 17-year-old Deisler sealed his Bundesliga breakthrough with Borussia Monchengladbach in 1998 before joining Hertha Berlin the following year. <br>In 2002 Bayern paid a then German-record of