Former Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham defender William Gallas has retired from football and will formally announce the decision in an interview to be broadcast later on Thursday.
Gallas, 37, will officially bring down the curtain on the career he began at Caen in 1996 when he speaks to Sport Confidential -- L'Equipe's TV channel -- on Thursday evening.
The former France international spent a total of five years at Chelsea and helped them to two Premier League titles -- including their first English league title win in 50 years -- as well as the League Cup.
He then left for Arsenal in 2006 as part of a deal that saw Ashley Cole move the other way and became captain of the club, before joining arch-rivals Tottenham in 2013. Gallas also played for Marseille, while he was at A-League side Perth Glory last season.
"It's something which isn't easy to announce," he said in L'Equipe. "You always say to yourself that you can continue, but I think today I can't do it anymore."
Capped 84 times by his country, Gallas helped France reach the 2006 World Cup final, and scored five international goals.
Among those was the controversial strike that sent Les Bleus through to the 2010 World Cup at the expense of Republic of Ireland, who felt cheated given Thierry Henry appeared to handle the ball before crossing for his teammate to find the back of the net.
Part of the France squad that went to the tournament in South Africa and infamously went on strike in protest at Nicolas Anelka's exclusion, Gallas did not play again for his nation after their ignominious group-stage exit.
"I didn't play well [in South Africa], but in the space of three games, everything was brought into question," he said, adding he was not "a leader" of the strike.