The 37-year-old Dutch footballer Arjen
Robben He acknowledged this Friday that the recovery from the injury he suffered at the beginning of the season “is not going well” and suggested the possibility of hanging up his boots permanently in the coming weeks.
“I wonder if it is still realistic to go ahead and get back on the pitch,” said the winger in an interview with the official channel of the Groningen.
“It is disappointing, I cannot put it in a more beautiful way than it is. I have discomfort in the twins and right now it is difficult for me. We have to see if there are enough perspectives for it to improve ”, he added.
He assured that he is in a phase “in which things float a bit in the middle” and warned that he will have to “make a choice.”
Retired in July 2019
Robben announced his retirement in July 2019, when he was active in the Bayern
Munich, but he surprised the football world when he said last June that he was putting his boots back on to play in the Groningen, the modest team of the Dutch First Division in which he was formed.
After a hopeful preseason in which he even scored a goal, he had to retire injured in the 30th minute of the first game of the course against him PSV
Eindhoven. He was low in the next three games and reappeared against him Utrecht in October, as he took the field for the last 14 minutes, but since then he has not been called up again.
“We have to do that assessment in the coming weeks, there has to be enough perspective. It is a question of making a deliberation, but surrendering is not in my dictionary ”, he commented. Robben, who currently trains alone.
Surrender is not in my dictionary
The Groningen goes sixth in the Eredivisie and has the ability to sneak into the qualifying rounds of the Europe
League.