Ex-Leicester and Chelsea defender Huth was ‘fed up’ of football by end of career and has not been in stadium since
THREE-TIME Premier League title-winner Robert Huth has revealed his pleasure at retiring from football after becoming disillusioned with the game.
With his entire career spent in England, the towering centre-back hung up his boots in January of last year after leaving 2015/16 champions Leicester.
While some players find that moment extremely difficult, Huth has stated that he felt a sweet release from what was once an obsession.
The outspoken German told Der Tagesspiegel: “I had to know everything there was to know about football. I then had the feeling that I just had to get away from football.
“At the end of my career, I was just fed up.
“In the last year of my career, I actually didn’t want to go to training anymore.
“I tried again in Stoke. But when I was injured again, I said immediately: ‘Now it’s over.’
“It was like a redemption.”
UTH-ER PLANS
Huth is now looking into a career as a sporting director, having tried his hand at TV pundit work and finding that it “really isn’t that much fun”.
Berlin clubs Union and Hertha are his ideal destinations with a return to the Premier League unlikely as the 35-year-old considers English clubs “a bit behind”.
However he has not even watched a game live since retiring.
To the question of his last visit to a stadium, Huth replied: “Most recently I was at a Leicester game, last [season].”
The former Chelsea, Stoke and Middlesbrough defender went on to describe football as a bubble.
Huth said: “Only now, after my active career, do I realise how unimportant football really is.
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“If you’re still in the middle of it, you think that this business is so incredibly important. But that’s not it.
“I’m no longer particularly interested in football. I hardly watch football anymore. Don’t ask me about results!
“A few years ago, football was the only thing that mattered. Now it doesn’t matter anymore.”