Champions League star dramatically retires from football hours after Man City bashing

A erstwhile Manchester City and Rangers subordinate has discontinue shot pursuing Slovan Bratislava's dense Champions League decision to Pep Guardiola's side

A Slovan Bratislava subordinate has retired from shot successful the aftermath of his side’s thrashing by his erstwhile nine Manchester City.

Pep Guardiola’s broadside eased to their archetypal triumph of this season’s Champions League arsenic they brushed the Slovakians speech 4-0 connected Tuesday. Early goals from Ilkay Gundogan and Phil Foden enactment City successful bid earlier Erling Haaland’s 42nd extremity successful 41 appearances successful the contention and different from substitute James McAtee added the gloss.

City besides deed the woodwork 3 times successful a ascendant show that added impetus to their run aft their gully with Inter Milan. They did it without hitting apical cogwheel and with a broadside showing six changes from Saturday’s gully astatine Newcastle.

It was Slovan’s 2nd successive dense decision successful the contention pursuing their opening-week 5-1 reverse astatine Celtic. And it was seemingly excessively overmuch to instrumentality for seasoned Vladimir Weiss, 34, whose 63 minutes connected the transportation look acceptable to beryllium his past successful nonrecreational football.

His father, Slovan’s manager, besides called Vladimir, said: “Vladimir volition marque his ain announcement successful the adjacent fewer days. But yes, I judge that was his past game.

“I'm his begetter and manager and it's hard for me. Everything begins and ends astatine immoderate point. It volition besides hap to maine too.” The winger came done City's academy and scored 1 extremity for them successful 5 appearances earlier his exit.

It isn’t the archetypal melodramatic status of Weiss Jnr’s vocation arsenic helium discontinue planetary shot successful 2018 aft being outraged astatine being an unused substitute successful a game. When a chap sub was sent connected instead, Weiss stormed backmost to the Slovakia dressing country successful a huff.

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He reversed his determination successful 2022 and has 77 caps for his country. The winger’s elder nine vocation really began astatine Man City, wherever helium made a fewer first-team appearances, including scoring successful a League Cup triumph implicit Arsenal.

He had indebtedness spells astatine Bolton, Rangers, wherever won the SPL rubric successful 2010/11, and Espanyol earlier leaving City for bully successful 2012. Following stints successful Italy, Greece and Qatar, helium joined his hometown nine Slovan successful 2020.

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