At the age of 36, Shlomi Arbeitman officially announced today (Friday) that he is retiring from football, as published in ONE. The striker, who has had a rich career in the Premier League, Europe and the Israeli national team, hung up his shoes and said goodbye in an exciting letter.
“How do you digest something like that?” I was sitting in front of the closet at home yesterday, a closet look at the shoes I had been playing with until recently, and then I remembered. I went back to the age of seven, even then I sat in front of the closet and looked at the shoes. “These were my first shoes, I was the youngest child in the group and in the neighborhood,” he wrote Arbeitman.
I remembered the first game in Betar and where my career went from there. Two championships with Maccabi Haifa, the top scorer in the Premier League, 100 league goals, twice the Toto Cup. What an honor it was for me to be a part of this thing. But after a year and a bit of trying again, I realized I could not go back to the pitches. It is impossible to digest, but it is also difficult to step on the foot, “he added.
And maybe I should not digest at all, but say thank you to those who did it better for me, family, children, Arik Izikovich and Betar Tobruk, who I had at home, for a four-year career in Europe, for a hat-trick in the national team, for each of the young teams I played In them, to number 19, to 28, to that number in Be’er Sheva that I will never forget, and to you the fans for the warm treatment. “I’m sure I’ll be there in another role, stripe, stripe, in the end it will come,” he concluded.