Davy Pröpper has put an end to his football career because he ‘slowly lost the fun in football’, the thirty-year-old midfielder said on the official PSV club site. Pröpper still had a contract for a year and a half with the people of Eindhoven, but is now giving it up. “I don’t feel comfortable in football culture.”
Pröpper played for Brighton & Hove Albion for the past four seasons and returned to Eindhoven last summer. “During the period that I was abroad, I noticed that I slowly lost the joy of football,” says Pröpper. “I found it extremely difficult to muster the discipline that is necessary to perform optimally and to let my life completely be determined by the busy football schedule. The corona period and the lack of visits from family and friends did me no good at the time either.”
“I am very grateful to the club for bringing me in this summer,” continues Pröpper. “I hoped that with my return to the Netherlands, the fun in football would return. Unfortunately, that has not turned out to be so easy, partly because I don’t feel comfortable in football culture. Still, I have adapted to it for a long time and sometimes closed it off. I don’t want that anymore and that’s why I’m done with it now.”
PSV says it regrets Pröpper’s decision to end his football career. “Of course we had hoped that he would contribute to new successes for the club, but I appreciate his honesty,” said football affairs director John de Jong. “His honesty to the club, but also to himself. That is why PSV is grateful to him for what he has done for the club in all those years and the championship that we have won with him.”
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