The phrase sounds like an epitaph. “Football, I gave you everything and you gave me everything, THANK YOU!” “, he wrote on his social networks, before adding: “The time has come to start a new path and close the chapter as a footballer. » Pedro Ruiz Delgado, the striker who signed for OM in August 2021, decided to end his professional career at… 24 years old. He announced it this Monday on Instagram.
The young Spaniard was never really able to take off, disrupted by repeated injuries. Trained at Betis Sevilla then at Real Madrid, the center forward was recruited free in August 2021 by the Marseille club. The Marseille leaders then hoped to relaunch this gifted player, with an impressive size (1.94 m), announced as a great hope for international football but handicapped by a nasty injury to the cruciate ligaments of one knee. Loaned to the Dutch club Nijmegen (D1), he returned to the shores of the Mediterranean in the summer of 2022 without ever having made a breakthrough in the Netherlands. Pedro Ruiz Delgado did not have more success at Marseille where, until the end of his contract last July, he did not put on his team’s jersey once.