Former AFC Leopards striker Eric Kwabena Bekoe has hinted at retirement from professional football.
The Accra-born player has been without a club since he parted ways with the Kenyan Premier League giants in 2018.
The Ghanaian failed to break to the first team both under Robert Matano and Dennis Kitambi forcing the club to terminate his contract.
However, with the striker now past his 34th birthday, he has hinted at hanging his boots if he fails to a nail a move to any Ghana Premier League club.
“I want to retire but people are still saying I still have the strength and look young to play actively,” he said in an interview with Kumasi based Akoma FM.
“I’m waiting for the deadly coronavirus to be over and see if I can join a club. If not the disease and I’m on the pitch playing you may think I’m cheating the clubs because it seems I have become a better player than previous days.
“You can’t buy experience from the shop, you build it instead. If you go through the ranks, you become a perfect person but at the other side of the world, the more experience you become, then they start to retire you,” he noted.
The former Asante-Kotoko goal poacher also stated he is too young to retire as many of his teammates are still playing actively.
“I’m too young to retire but in Ghana people will start tagging you as old. When you go to Egypt now, some of my teammates are still playing there. You can talk about Samuel Nkoom, Harrison Afful, Nii Adjei and others who were my teammates at Kotoko are still playing,” he argued.
Bekoe, who made his debut for Ghana in 2008 against Mexico in a friendly, won the Ghana Premier League top scorer award in 2007-08 season after bagging 17 goals.
He also bagged the league title as well as the Presidents Cup with the Porcupine Warriors in the same year.
