With Christoph Metzelder another veteran football player announced his career end today. Metzelder won the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund and the Premiera Division with Real Madrid. During his career he had some major set-backs due to injury.
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The chart shows a constant increase in Goalimpact early in his career until he experienced problems with his achilles tendon and needed operations. As can be seen in the chart, he returned with lower performance from his injury. Due to many more injury problems his Goalimpact never really took off as it could given his talent. However, he had a golden autumn with his third club, Schalke, with which he reached the semi-final of the Champions League. (The peak in the second half of 2012 can be ignored. Many injuries make this the average over few minutes only.)
The chart shows a constant increase in Goalimpact early in his career until he experienced problems with his achilles tendon and needed operations. As can be seen in the chart, he returned with lower performance from his injury. Due to many more injury problems his Goalimpact never really took off as it could given his talent. However, he had a golden autumn with his third club, Schalke, with which he reached the semi-final of the Champions League. (The peak in the second half of 2012 can be ignored. Many injuries make this the average over few minutes only.)