36-year-old Andrei Arshavin thought about the end of his football player's career

The former captain of the Russian national football team Andrei Arshavin can end his career in 2017. This was a 36-year-old player of the Kazakhstan "Kairat" informed reporters as part of the opening of the children's international festival of football, which will be held in Barnaul.

“Maybe this will happen, my contract ends at the end of this year than I will do - I didn’t think. I think. One way or another, it will be connected with football that it will be specifically,” TASS Arshavina quotes.

At the end of July, Arshavin was injured in the thigh and plans to return to duty in September. Meanwhile, the Kairat leadership is in no hurry to offer the veteran a new contract and intends to discuss the continuation of cooperation at the end of the current season.

“We have an agreement to sit down and talk with Arshavin according to the results of the season, then we will determine. It all depends on the desire and health of Andrei himself. He absolutely does not want to serve the number, but wants to play. You need to understand that it is hard work, you need to work and train a lot. For himself, he himself can decide whether he can continue his career or not,” said the Club Technical Director Evgeny Kalakutsky.

Arshavin moved to Kairat in 2016 and played 53 matches in various tournaments for a team from Alma-Ata, scoring 15 goals.

Earlier, he performed at the St. Petersburg Zenit, the London Arsenal and the Krasnodar Kuban. Andrei was the captain of the Russian team and played 74 matches for it, scoring 17 goals.