Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - Former Arsenal defender, Shkodran Mustafi has retired from playing football and bagged a job as an Under-17s national team coach.
The ex-German defender, who also won the
World Cup, spent the entirety of last season as a free agent after leaving
Levante and was only able to make three outings in his final year at the
Spanish side due to injury
Mustafi, who played for Arsenal between
2016 and 2021 and won the World Cup with Germany in 2014, revealed that
coaching has been on the edges of his mind for a while.
Mustafi has assumed the assistant manager
role under Marc Meister at Germany's Under-17s and will start on July 1.
He said: 'I've been thinking about gaining
experience as a coach for a while.
'On the one hand, it's a shame that it's
coming so soon because I would have liked to have played football myself for
longer.
'On the other hand, I'm really looking
forward to the time ahead and to taking my first steps as a coach at the DFB.
'I want to pass on all the experience I've
gained during my time with the U15s, U21s and of course with the senior
national team to the boys.
Mustafi made 20 caps for Germany over three
years between 2014 and 2017.
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