Daniel Agger has announced his retirement from football at the age of just 31.
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Over the course of an eight-year spell with the Premier League club, Agger made 232 appearances and won the League Cup in 2012, as well as playing in the 2007 Champions League final defeat to AC Milan.
After falling down the pecking order at Anfield under then-Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, Agger chose to rejoin his boyhood club Brondby in the summer of 2014.
He returned to Brondby and made 24 appearances in the Superliga last season. I'm proud of my career.
“It has been hard, I’ve had doubts until the end. So I don’t have any doubts that I’m making the right decision”. Offers reported in the media, especially from Turkey, have been something I’ve thought a lot about.
“I don’t want my level to fall any further and so it was time to stop”, he added.
However, despite injuries and rumoured off-the-field problems, he managed to squeeze 71 worldwide caps in there somewhere and he rattled the net 14 times for Liverpool in that time too.
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Agger, who struggled with persistent injury problems throughout his career, took to Twitter to reveal his decision.
