At 34, the former Olympique de Marseille midfielder (2018-2023) announced he was hanging up his boots in a post published on his social networks. He had been without a club since leaving Genoa in June.
Two sentences and a black and white photo, like mourning. This is how Kevin Strootman announced that he was ending his career sixteen years after starting it at Sparta Rotterdam, in his native country. “Careers end. Thank you football,” the Dutchman simply wrote on social networks, accompanied by a photo montage of his face and the logos of his seven professional clubs, the club where he started and the Oranje, including he wore the badge 46 times.
The former Marseille midfielder had been without a club since the end of his one-season contract with Genoa last June, where he had already played on loan in 2021 then between 2022 and 2023.
An unconvincing move to OM
After five rich seasons at AS Roma, marked by a serious rupture of the cruciate ligament, he arrived at Olympique de Marseille in 2018. But his time in the Marseille city, punctuated by several loans in Serie A, n It did not have the expected success. He only made 78 appearances, for 3 goals and 9 assists.
His departure from the Marseille city was marked by tensions with Marseille supporters, some of whom did not hesitate to attack him on social networks.
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