David Silva will retire from football due to a serious injury

Real Sociedad midfielder David Silva He decided to retire from football after confirming a severe injury to the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Although some additional medical tests are still pending, the 37-year-old midfielder from the Canary Islands has decided to give up playing football professionally, as confirmed by sources close to the player.

Real Sociedad reported last Thursday that Silva was suffering from an anterior cruciate ligament injury in his left knee, a serious ailment that could sideline him for the entire season. Player pulled out of practice on Wednesday with discomfort and, in the performed imaging tests, a lesion in the ligament was detected. At 37, injury would force Silva to hang up his boots while he was still at a competitive level. With the Spanish team, Silva is a part a select group of Spanish players, champions of the World Cup and two European Championships.

The Canaries midfielder arrived in San Sebastián on 17 August 2020 after ending a successful career at Manchester City. He signed for Real for two years, with the possibility of extending the contract for another season. In that third season, he was fundamental in Real Sociedad’s classification for Champions League, which prompted the Canarian footballer to renew another campaign. However, an injury will deprive him of playing that fourth season.

Born in Arguineguín (Gran Canaria) in 1986, David Josué Jiménez Silva started in San Fernando de Maspalomas, but at the age of 14 he moved to the youth academy Valencia. In the 2004-2005 season, he played on loan in Eibar and later in Celticthis time in the First League, to return to Valencia in 2006. In the summer of 2010, while playing and winning world championship in south africahis departure is confirmed Manchester Citya club where he stayed for a decade.

At the end of his time in Manchester, at the age of 34, Silva was looking for a destination where he could continue to compete at the highest level and enjoy football, and at that moment Real company Imanola Alguacila, with whom he won the King’s Cup and was key in the European classification in the three seasons he played for txuri urdin.