Sudan national team captain: I set my retirement date because my body tells me “enough”

The captain of the Sudanese national football team, the international Nasr El-Din Al-Shugail, who set his international retirement date after the 2022 African Nations Championship in Cameroon, revealed that he made the decision because he feels that his body can no longer bear it as before and tells him that he must stop.

Al-Shugail told "Emirates Al-Youm" after the end of the friendly match that Sudan lost 2-1 against Niger yesterday in Dubai: "My body can no longer bear the same as before. Al Hilal until the end of the season.

The international player Nasr Al-Din Al-Shugail violated the expectations that he expected to retire in 2012 at the age of “26 years”, after the evacuation of his former club Al-Merreikh betrayed him on the last day of the winter transfer period, but he obtained the “kiss of life” after Al Hilal contracted him to continue his career until Today, he is 35 years old.

Al-Shugail said: "It is great that things have gone well since I moved to Al Hilal. Throughout these years, I have been more interested in preserving myself in order to continue on the field for as long as possible, but now my body tells me that the final stop is soon, so I decided to retire."

Like most football players around the world, Nasr Al-Din Al-Shugail set his goal after retiring to enter the field of coaching, and he says: “I find myself interested in continuing in the field of football, but as a coach, for me I have sufficient ambition and I will participate in training courses for the next stage of my career.” my life".

The international player admitted the difficulty of having a foothold for the new generation of coaches, and said: “It is true that there is a difficulty in having an opportunity for the new generation, but at the same time this does not mean that you have to stop qualifying yourself, you must maintain your ambition, in my estimation, this defect is due to the system In addition to the current general situation in the country.

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