This is the exciting Spanish footballer's statement, he was forced to leave football because of health problems.

Aritz Aduriz has announced that he is leaving football due to problems at the foot of the thigh. The 39-year-old, who ends his contractual relationship with the Athletic Bilbaon on June 30th, indicated several months ago his intention to hang his shoes on nails, but that statement came before the competition was temporarily suspended due to Coronavirus. Today, however, goodbye is final.

The time has come. Many times I've mentioned leaving football before you abandon it. Only yesterday did doctors recommend that I go into the operating room to put a prosthesis in my hip and try to face, at least, as much as possible, with daily life”, he wrote Aduriz himself.

The Athletic Bilbao attacker admits that “unfortunately my body has said enough. I can't help my colleagues the way they want it. This is also the life of a professional athlete. Simple, very simple. ”