MILAN, Italy – Tsohon dan wasan tsakiya na AC Milan, Simon Kjaer, ya sanar da yin ritaya daga kwallon kafa a yau. Dan wasan dan Denmark, wanda ya bar kungiyar a karshen kakar wasa ta bara, ya yanke shawarar daina buga kwallo yana da shekaru 35.
Kjaer ya bar Milan a lokacin bazara bayan karewar kwantiraginsa. Ko da yake an sami sha’awar sa daga wasu kungiyoyi a Turai, ya bayyana wa gidan talabijin na Denmark, TV2, cewa ya yanke shawarar yin ritaya.
Tsohon kyaftin din tawagar Denmark ya buga wasa a kungiyar Lille na Faransa tsawon shekaru biyu kafin ya koma Milan. A cikin shekarunsa na wasa, Kjaer ya samu karbuwa sosai saboda gwanintarsa a matsayin mai tsaron gida.
“Na yi tunani sosai game da wannan shawara, kuma na ga cewa lokaci ya yi da zan daina,” in ji Kjaer a cikin wata hira da TV2. “Na yi farin ciki da duk abin da na samu a cikin aikin kwallon kafa na.”
Kjaer ya fara aikinsa a Denmark kafin ya tafi kasashen waje inda ya buga wa kungiyoyi kamar Palermo, Wolfsburg, Sevilla, da Atalanta. Ya kuma taka leda a gasar cin kofin duniya ta FIFA da gasar cin kofin Turai.
Sanarwar ritayar Kjaer ta zo ne bayan ya yi aiki mai tsauri a kungiyar AC Milan, inda ya taimaka wajen kara karfafa tsaron gida. Ya kuma taka muhimmiyar rawa a tawagar Denmark, inda ya jagoranci tawagar a gasar Euro 2020.