Acc Milan fans baffled: he decided to bid farewell to soccer immediately. Here’s the situation after not even a year with his new club
Not even a year in Spain. Now the decision of farewell. In Italy he played there, with the shirts of Genoa first and Milan later, but also around Europe he did not miss anything: Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal, before Betis, the last team of his career.
Sokratis Papastathopoulos, 35-year-old Greek central, will close with playing soccer at the end of this season. He officially announced this via a post on his social profiles. He had not renewed his contract with Olympiacos last summer and was left without a team, before the Andalusian call-up at a difficult time for Pellegrini’s club, which had lost Marc Bartra to a serious injury.
Papastathopoulos leaves soccer, official
And last October the Spaniards had decided precisely to go fishing from the free market. Taking the Greek who, over the course of this year eventually collected 14 games. Not a lot, of course, but having been taken to go and fill a hole, not even a few. In short, one cannot complain.
Probably, however, he had already been told by the club that their few-month-long liason would not continue, and from there the step to goodbye was really short. The Greek therefore closes his career, at the right age let’s be clear about it, because having arrived at a certain point in one’s life it is very difficult to be able to maintain the rhythms of training, of trips to the homeland or to Europe, and also the mental stress is not easy to manage. In short, better this way, with the Greek devoting himself to his family and maybe he could stay in the world of soccer in another capacity, different as a player, but as a technician or manager. Good luck with everything.