[英超]前利物浦後衛懷斯（John Arne Riise）宣佈掛靴 [復制鏈接]

Former Liverpool defender John Arne Riise calls time on career

By PA Sport
Last Updated: 13/06/16 11:54am



Former Liverpool and Norway defender John Arne Riise has announced his retirement from football at the age of 35.

The left full-back, a Champions League winner with the Reds in 2005, has made 10 appearances for his first club Aalesund back in his homeland this season.

However, he has decided to walk away from the game after realising he is no longer able to cope with the physical demands of a top-flight league.

"My inner goal was to play football at the Norwegian top level until I was 40. But that is not to be. It stops here," he wrote on his personal website.

"Lately there has emerged a completely new feeling in me that I am no longer strong enough to perform at my best.

I like to play football but the motivation is still not strong enough to run the race at the highest level. This body - and this head - has been through so much over the last 20 years.

"It is heavy and painful admission and very full of emotion but it is most of all honest."

Riise, who was capped 110 times in a 14-year international career with Norway, also played for Monaco, Roma, Fulham, APOEL and Delhi Dynamos.

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【now.com體育】曾協助利物浦勇奪2005年歐聯冠軍的挪威左閘懷斯，周一公佈結束職業球員生涯。

35歲的懷斯（John Arne Riise）今季效力母會阿里辛特，並於挪威超級聯賽球季上陣10次。

不過，他周一透過個人官方網站宣佈高掛球靴的決定：「我的目標本來是於40歲前，繼續在挪威頂級水平賽事披甲，但事與願違。」懷斯補充：「最近我明顯感到不夠強壯，無法交出最佳表現。我仍喜歡踢球，但心理上已沒有於最高水準競賽的足夠動力，而我的身體與腦筋於過去二十年已過分透支。這是沉重、痛苦及感性的決定，但也是最坦承的決定。」

懷斯曾110次代表挪威國家隊比賽，球會方面亦效力過利物浦、羅馬、摩納哥及富咸等著名歐洲球隊。除2005年的歐聯冠軍，他亦曾協助紅軍贏取2003年英格蘭聯賽盃及2006年英格蘭足總盃冠軍，以及早年替摩納哥摘下法甲冠軍。