Nicklas Bendtner, just 36 years old, hung up his boots early in the summer of 2021 after a host of extra-sporting problems hampered his victory on the green. Now, nearly three years later, the former Arsenal and Wolfsburg striker seems to regret the decision he made although he admits it was too late: “I let the black wolf inside me decide instead of the white one. My body is one that perishes”.
“Because of my reputation I couldn’t go to other clubs where I wanted to go. Some coaches told me: ‘We love you, but we won’t accept you.’ The story caught up with me. No matter what I said there was a blank black man who was not in my favor so I decided to leave him. “I didn’t even have time to think if it was the right thing to do. Sometimes, even now… I mean, for the last three or four years, almost every day I wonder if I should try. to return But for reasons unknown to me, I was unable to return my feet to the lime line. It’s a physical issue.
Bendtner misses football: “For me, football is love. It’s the only thing I really liked to do and it’s the only thing that gave me free space. I feel like it’s a place where I belong. The moment I walked into the countryside, all other problems disappeared. “I didn’t mean to hurt or disappoint anyone. Although I have good faith, I have a rather difficult personality and so I may have put some people in more difficult situations than I should have. Now I can sit here, being older, and think… Why? What happened? I might regret it.”
Bendtner has been involved in many eccentricities and scandals: from displaying a sports betting brand on his underpants in the middle of a game to fighting with his father and even being jailed for attacking a taxi driver in Copenhagen.
Source: La Verdad
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