Famous Dutch forward Klaas Jan Huntelaar has finished his football career. After 19 years of professional football, the news was announced by the specialized portal Voetbal International.Huntelaar’s former teammate Ryan Babel congratulated on Twitter, but the 38-year-old striker himself did not announce the retirement officially.❗Schalke’s legend Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is set to officially announce his retirement from professional football.— @VI_nl | #S04 pic.twitter.com/0NTqdxpRCn— SchalkeReport (@SchalkeReport) September 15, 2021 Huntelaar caused confusion last winter, with a surprising return to Schalke, but in the end he failed to help the Miners drop out in the second tier of German football. Huntelaar played 665 games during his career and scored 367 goals. He played mostly in Ajax, where he collected eight seasons on two occasions to his resume.Congratulations on a big career my friend.. @KJ_Huntelaar pleasure playing together. I wish you good luck with life after football.. happy retirement 🤝— Ryan Babel (@Ryanbabel) September 14, 2021 Interestingly, he took his first professional footballing steps with PSV Eindhoven, but exploded while wearing the shirt of arch rival Ajax, for which he originally played between 2006 and 2009, played 136 games and scored 105 goals. He also left a big mark in Schalke, where he scored 128 goals in 249 games between 2010 and 2017.
