Theo Walcott has announced his retirement from football at the age of 34.
opens up about his decision to hang up his boots, despite making 24 appearances for Southampton last season.
"I want to try new things – I never experienced certain things when I was a kid because I was thrust into some world without a choice," he said."It was just beyond talent and hunger, and I missed out on a lot. I’m not saying I’m going to be doing some mad stuff, but I feel like I want to experience life, you know? Everything has revolved around football for me, and now it [still] does, but it can also look somewhere else as well.”forward also confirmed offers from Saudi Arabia.
"I’m not going to earn myself a contract when I’m not going to be putting 100% - it just doesn’t sit pretty with me.Walcott added: “It’s not that I’ve fallen out of love with the game – it’s just that my heart’s not going to be fully committed to playing week in week out, training and doing a pre-season again."That’s okay with me – there’s a lot of people that will feel like I’ve got a lot to do, and I was playing at the end of the season.
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