Sentences with phrase «hang up his boots early»

Olsen was a Real Madrid player, but he was forced to hang up his boots early due to a serious knee injury.

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With the fifth season of the award winning fantasy series set to kick off early this month, the folks at talkSPORT have put in the good work to discover just which players could find themselves a new career as actors should they decide to hang up their boots.

The 37 year old has been coy about his next career move since leaving New York Red Bulls earlier this month but finally hung up his boots and announced he will begin working as a pundit for Sky Sports.

Despite suffering relegation with the Tykes that year, Watson — who collected five England Under - 21 caps in the mid-1990s — was tipped for success, but had to hang up his boots in 2001 at the age of 28 following a serious knee injury sustained two years earlier.

Current skipper Per Mertesacker has announced his decision to hang up his boots next summer while his deputy Laurent Koscielny celebrated his 32nd birthday earlier this month.