Niclas Süle has been one of the big profiles in German football over the past decade. 14 titles with Bayern Munich, Champions League included. Then transfer to Borussia Dortmund in 2022. On Wednesday, the 30-year-old reports that his career is over.
Recently, the centre-back picked up a knee injury in a match against Hoffenheim in mid-April, then came the realisation that life is more than football.
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“I would like to tell you that I am retiring this summer. What I felt when our doctor in Hoffenheim’s dressing room did the test for a torn cruciate ligament, looked at the physiotherapist and shook his head, the physiotherapist did the same and didn’t feel anything either. I went into the shower and cried for ten minutes. In that situation, I really thought: ‘It’s over’. When I went into the MRI scanner the next day and got the good news (that it wasn’t a torn cruciate ligament after all, ed.), it was 100% clear to me that it was over,” Süle begins in the podcast ‘Spielmacher’.
“I couldn’t imagine anything worse than actually looking forward to the time afterwards – being independent, going on holiday, having time with my children and then having to work on my third cruciate ligament injury,” says future football retiree Niklas Süle.
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