Riyad Mahrez ya tabbatar da yin ritaya daga kwallon kafa ta kasa da kasa bayan da Algeria ta sha kashi 2-0 a hannun Switzerland a zagaye na 32 na Gasar Duniya, yana kawo karshen aikin kasa da kasa na shekaru 12 tare da Desert Foxes.

Kyaftin din mai shekaru 35 ya yi shelar sanarwar nan da nan bayan wasan a Vancouver, yana rufe wata shafar rayuwar kasa da kasa mai ban sha'awa da ta ƙunshi kofuna 120 da kwallaye 40.

"Manufar ita ce ci gaba, kuma ina tsammanin wasan ya kasance a cikin iyawarmu. Mun karbi kwallaye biyu saboda kurakurai, kuma a wannan matakin, mun biya farashin hakan sosai," in ji Mahrez.

Da aka tambaye shi ko hasarar da ta zo daga Switzerland ita ce bayyanar sa ta karshe tare da Algeria, Mahrez bai bar shakka kadan ba: "Ita ce bayyanar ta ta karshe ma da tawagar kasa. Shi ne wasina na karshe."

Almara ta gama aikinta

Mahrez yana fita a matsayin dan wasan da ya fi samun kofuna a tarihin Algeria bayan Aissa Mandi kawai wanda ya yi kofuna 123. Kwallayensa 40 na kasa da kasa sun sanya shi na biyu a jerin mafi yawan zura kwallaye, bayan Islam Slimani wanda ya yi 49.

Babban nasarar aikinsa a tufar Algeria shi ne cin kofin Afirka Cup of Nations na 2019, inda ya jagoranci Desert Foxes zuwa taken nahiya na farko tun daga 1990. Harba kulli kyauta da ya yi a minti na karshe a wasan kusa da na karshe da Nigeria har yanzu ya kasance daya daga cikin abubuwan da ake tuna da su sosai a gasar, sannan Algeria ta doke Senegal a wasan karshe.

Wannan lokacin rani ma ya nuna mafi kyawun kamfen dinsa na Gasar Duniya. Tsohon mai wasan Leicester City da Manchester City ya samu hannu a kwallaye 3 a wasanni 4 — kwallaye biyu a kan Austria da taimakon kwallon a kan Jordan — rikodin dan wasan Algeria kowane a cikin wata muddin gasar duniya.

Ya kuma shiga tarihi a matsayin ɗan wasan Afirka na biyu mafi girma da ya fara wasan knockout na Gasar Duniya, bayan Idrissa Gueye na Senegal a farkon wannan gasar.

Daga Faransa zuwa ɗaukaka tare da Algeria

An haife shi a Faransa, Mahrez ya zaɓi wakiltar Algeria a 2013 kuma ya yi wasansa na farko kafin Gasar Duniya ta 2014 a Brazil, inda Desert Foxes suka kai zagaye na 16. Daga nan sai ya zama daya daga cikin dan wasan Algeria kaɗan da suka wuce kofuna 100 na kasa da kasa, yana tabbatar da matsayinsa a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan 'yan wasan a tarihin ƙasar.