Long time Manchester City goalkeeper, Joe Hart has announced his retirement from professional football at the end of the season at the age of 37.
Hart, who currently plays for Celtic in the Scottish league, has seen a lot of success throughout his career with England, Manchester City, and most recently Celtic.
“This is something I have thought about for a while,” Hart told Celtic TV. “There’s no right or wrong time is there? But the way this club works is that I’m playing out at the moment. There’s so much on it. There’s so much heart and soul poured into what we’re doing as a football club.”
He was a big part of Manchester City’s first part of success under Roberto Mancini with him being the number one choice for the Italian manager. However, despite being the number one choice for Manchester City for years, he was not in the future plan for City in the eyes of Pep Guardiola who opted to shun Hart out of the side and bring in Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson with his play from the back style.
Hart then moved on from City to play for a bunch of teams on loan from Italy to England and officially got a transfer from the club in 2018 where he moved to Burnley and stayed with them for 2 years before moving to Tottenham Hotspur for a year and finally onto Celtic where he will retire at the end of the season.
Embed from Getty ImagesHe also got himself 75 caps for the Mens England side making him the second most capped English goalkeepers of all time behind Peter Shilton who has 125 caps for the three lions.
He will go down in the history books in not just England but also Manchester City as their goalkeeper training ground is named after the Englishman with his goalkeeping capturing the hearts of City fans across the world.
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