Croatia captain Niko Kovac has confirmed he will retire from international football at the end of Euro 2008.
Kovac hopes quarter-final is not his last international game
Croatia captain Niko Kovac has confirmed he will retire from international football at the end of Euro 2008.
Kovac has won 79 caps for Croatia, scoring 13 goals, since making his national team debut against Morocco in December 1996.
The midfielder, who missed the team's run to the semi-finals of the 1998 World Cup through injury, has been skipper for the past four years.
But the 36-year-old plans to pass on the armband at the end of the European Championship, with Croatia playing Turkey in the quarter-finals on Friday.
The German-born Red Bull Salzburg man admits the last-eight showdown in Vienna 'is the peak of my career'.
Of the game, he said: "It could be my last for Croatia, but let's hope it isn't as I have a feeling we can do much more here than just the quarter-finals."
Kovac is due to resume his midfield partnership with Luka Modric against Turkey after being rested for Monday's Group B game with Poland.
