Professional football for Niklas Süle will be over in the summer. The ex-national player made the decision weeks ago – after an incident in Sinsheim.
Former national soccer player Niklas Süle is ending his active career after the season. The 30-year-old Borussia Dortmund defender announced this in the “Spielmacher” podcast from “360Media”.
“I would like to announce that I will end my career in the summer”said Süle, whose contract with BVB expires on June 30th. The currently injured central defender has played 299 Bundesliga games so far and has 49 international matches.
Niklas Süle: “I cried for ten minutes”
According to Süle, he had been thinking about hanging up his football boots for a long time. The final decision was made after the game in mid-April at his former club TSG Hoffenheim (1:2), in which he injured his knee.
“What I felt when our doc did the drawer test in the dressing room in Hoffenheim, looked at the physio and shook his head, the physio also did it and didn’t notice any stop, I went into the shower and cried for ten minutes,” said Süle.
The fear of a third cruciate ligament tear put a lot of strain on him. After the MRI and the all clear is for him “a thousand percent clear” been, “that it’s over.”
Süle’s most emotional career moment
Süle moved from Bayern Munich to Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2022. The defender has played 109 competitive games for BVB so far and scored three goals.
The near championship in his first season for Dortmund was particularly emotional for him. “That was one of the craziest moments I ever had before the Mainz game,” said Niklas Süle about the last matchday of the 2022/23 season. Süle also reached the Champions League final with Dortmund in his second season.
