Former Shanghai Shenhua striker\u00a0Carlos Tevez has set his retirement date for the end of next season, when his contract with current club Boca Juniors expires.<\/p>\n
Tevez rejoined his boyhood club Boca Juniors in January\u00a0from Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua<\/a>, where he was the highest paid footballer in the world.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll leave football behind when my contract with Boca expires at the end of next year,\u201d he told Canal 13, as quoted by Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cOther times, I missed the club when I left, but this time it won\u2019t be the same. I won\u2019t go to another team and I\u2019ll retire with this jersey.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to retire and then become a coach or director. I must prepare for such a role first.<\/p>\n \u201cI enjoy playing, but things do not work out the way I want them to come in. At the end of next year I will retire, but I would like to remain attached to the club.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst I have to prepare, and then see what I do, my family too, you have to have a cool head to see afterwards what you want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n The former Manchester City and Juventus striker endured a nightmare in China, scoring just four goals in 16 Chinese Super League appearances amid accusations of a poor work ethic.<\/p>\n It was a poor performances from the former Argentina international as he arrived as the world\u2019s best-paid player when he signed a two-year deal with Shenhua in December 2016 worth a reported \u00a3615,000 a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Shanghai Shenhua striker\u00a0Carlos Tevez has set his retirement date for the end of next season, when his contract with current club Boca Juniors expires. Tevez rejoined his boyhood club Boca Juniors in January\u00a0from Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua, where he was the highest paid footballer in the world. \u201cI\u2019ll leave football behind when my contract with Boca expires at the end of next year,\u201d he told Canal 13, as quoted by Daily Mail. \u201cOther times, I missed the club when I left, but this time it won\u2019t be the same. I won\u2019t go to another team and I\u2019ll retire with this jersey. \u201cI don\u2019t want to retire and … Continue reading “Former Shanghai Shenhua striker\u00a0Carlos Tevez announces his retirement plan”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[248,83,247,95],"class_list":["post-13137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-carlos-tevez","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-shanghai-shenhua","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}