Kuck about the end of my career: I can't get out of stairs. I will miss adrenaline

BRATISLAVA. He came to the hall in front of journalists and hardly found words. « At fifteen I left the house and now it seems to me as one quick moment, » he said.

“I decided that this is my last season in my career,” admitted Juraj Kucka. After this year, he hangs the football boots on the nail.

He thought about his future for a long time. The head wanted to continue, but the body didn’t allow him.

« Since April last year I had some injury. Two operations. I’m still not fit. This period made my decision easier, » said the long -time representative.

Weiss had to brake him: it’s fool

His knee makes him trouble. He admitted that sometimes he couldn’t even hold on my feet: « I went through surgery. Everything went well. But later it started. I had a lot of pain. It was found there was a swelling on the bone.

I went through the pain. She went, I started again, or it hurt again. In my knee sometimes it stabs me so much that I can not hold on my feet. I’ve been working for about three months. ”

Kucka injured his knee on the first day of the winter preparation in Qatar. The season was supposed to end for him, but he was working on his return.

« He has been training individually for a long time. He has already trained on the second or third day. A fool. One has to brake it, » Vladimír Weiss laughed before the spring part.

Can’t go up the stairs

Kucka recently admitted that he couldn’t even go up the stairs for an injury: “It is strange that my knee limits me in everyday life and at all. When I burden it to the maximum, he doesn’t make me a problem.

But during the day I can’t go out or get the stairs. Or play with the children, run. It bothers me in my head to get right. ”

Nevertheless, he wants to say goodbye to this year directly on the lawn: « I want to end the season with dignity. On the pitch. The priority is the last match. Whether I get into it or not. »

After the last league round with Košice Slovan will prepare a spectacular farewell. Worthy of a representative.

The teammates did not overwhelm him

He first introduced his decision to finish football with coach Vladimír Weiss. « When I told him, he said well, we’ll talk about it yet. It was a long time ago. But neither he nor the guys, » he said.

« They felt that I was determined and that I wouldn’t change it anymore, » he added.

In the summer of 2022 he returned to Slovakia. After thirteen years. They talked him to join the ‘whites’.

Especially Captain Vladimír Weiss Junior. « It cannot be calculated that how many times he spoke to me. It was enough. I still had it behind my back, » said Juraj Kucka.

His signature started Slovan a new era. Every year he played a cup Europe. This season he confronted the world’s best clubs in the Champions League.

Video: Juraj Kucka

What will he miss? Emotions and adrenaline, he claims

He was close to not playing in it. He wanted to end a year ago. « I was thinking about it even before the end of last season. Then I decided to continue. I still want to try it, » Kuck said.

He was known on the lawn for his bulldog nature. He went to the fights to one hundred percent. Football loves. Overall, movement, he cannot sit all day on the ass.

« Since January I have been closed in the gym. When I couldn’t exercise my legs, I practiced the top of my body. I couldn’t be without activity, » he admitted to journalists.

What will he miss most about football? « Cab, team. Emotions and adrenaline during matches. »

Will Juraj Kuck also see the position of coach or official in the future? « Certainly not at the moment. As a coach or official I can’t see myself, » he replied vigorously.