Footballer Roman Pavlyuchenko announced his retirement after suspension

Bronze medalist of the 2008 European Football Championship, 40-year-old football player Roman Pavlyuchenko announced his retirement. He explained his decision by inappropriate physical parameters.

“I’m 40 years old, that’s enough already. The second division is not such a high level, but there are young guys with whom it is already hard for me to train, other speeds. It is necessary to at least correspond to the level, but I am no longer ready to support such physical work, ”the football player said in an interview. Sports.ru.

As he clarified, his sports career was long over. “The fact that I played for Znamya is just for myself, to share my experience with young guys. Now I realized that it is finally time to end this. Nerves, as you can see, sometimes give up, ”said the football player.

Today, the Russian Football Union suspended Roman Pavlyuchenko for eight matches of the Second League for unsportsmanlike behavior in the game of the 17th round against Cosmos from Dolgoprudny.

“At the 80th minute, Pavlyuchenko was sent off for trying to physically influence the Cosmos player. Leaving the sports core, he hit the metal fence. After the match, he was waiting in the under-tribune room for Cosmos player Artem Kuzin, tried to exert physical pressure and obscenely insulted him, ”Artur Grigoryants, head of the control and disciplinary committee of the Russian Football Union, explained the reasons for the decision.

Roman Pavlyuchenko played for Dynamo Stavropol, Rotor, Ural, Spartak, Lokomotiv, Ararat and Kuban. From 2008 to 2012 he played for Tottenham. In recent years, the footballer played for the Noginsk club Znamya from the Second League.

Daria Erozbek