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Ex-Newcastle star who won the Champions League forced to retire aged just 31

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Newcastle United defender Davide Santon painfully admitted ‘my body just can’t handle it anymore’ during a tearful retirement announcement.The Italian defender joined the Magpies fresh off winning the Champions League under Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan in 2011.

He would go on to make 94 appearances for the Magpies across four seasons under Alan Pardew, before eventually departing the club to join Roma.Unfortunately, the eight cap Italian international has been forced to call time on his career at the age of only 31-years-old, after a devastating series of repeated knee injuries.Read More: Richard Keys says sports taking place this weekend 'should be ashamed' after Queen's death "I am forced to hang up my boots,” Santon said to Tuttomercatoweb, via the Sun. “It’s not that I don’t have offers, but my body just can’t handle it anymore after so many injuries."I am forced to do this.

I didn’t want to, but I have to. I had endless tests and consultations, but there was nothing to be done."I can still walk, but that’s not enough to be a professional athlete.

If I kept pushing, I’d risk needing a prosthesis.” Santon offered a brutal insight into the scale of injuries that have gone on to spell the end of his footballing journey. “The left knee is just gone,” he bluntly added. “It stops me doing lots of things.What other players, whose careers were cut short in similar circumstances, can you remember?

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