Ascoli Calcio, Padoin closes with football played: “I opened a gym and I dream of coaching in the youth teams” – picenotime

Simone Padoin he definitively said goodbye to football after he consensually terminated the contract that bound him to Ascoli until 30 June 2021 on 2 October 2021. The 36-year-old former Juventus midfielder ended his experience in the Piceno capital with 32 appearances in matches official, the last in the final minutes of the match drawn at the “Rigamonti” in Brescia last September 26 on the first day of the Serie B 2020/2021 championship.

“I said goodbye to football, there were no longer the conditions to continue my career with serenity. Now I am back home, I have opened a gym with my wife and I try to help her in carrying it out – said Padoin during an interview on the Gianlucadimarzio.com portal -. For now I focus on family, I decided to quit because I figured that a new lockdown would keep me away from my children for too long. It was a choice I had prepared for: when you are 36 and you play football, you start to realize that, at any moment, you may find yourself forced to take a step back. My goal is to become part of a youth sector, I think it is the ideal context for someone like me. From Vicenza to Juventus, if I have reached the top I owe it to the character, passion, diligence and professionalism that have accompanied me in my job. If one firmly wants something, in the end he can achieve it. And this is what today’s talents must understand. Coaching in the Atalanta youth sector would be the top. Twenty years ago, when I played it, everything worked perfectly. Even today Gasperini is reaping the fruits of an amazing job“.

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