Atalanta’s Josip Ilicic wants to quit football after he found his wife Tina Polovina cheating.
Atalanta’s
Josic Ilicic is heartbroken, depressed and he is considering retiring from
football. According to reports, he travelled to Slovenia to surprise his wife
Tina Polovina, shockingly,Josip Ilicic, 32, is considering quitting football
after he was granted permission to leave the Italian club’s training camp for
personal reasons.
Ilicic met his
wife Tina Polovina in 2009 and soon enough got married to her, they have two
daughters Sofia and Victoria, rumours have it that the “little heart ”
celebration the striker does after every goal is a dedication to his wife,
Tina.
The Slovenian
striker seems to have slipped into depression after he found his wife cheating
on him when he decided to pay her a surprise visit at their country home in
Slovenia.
Speaking after
their Serie A match, Atalanta manager Gasperini told Sky Sports Italy, “We’re
getting closer to the day [of the PSG game]. With each passing day, it is more
difficult for us to have Ilicic back. It would be very difficult for him to be
with us in Lisbon.”
Josip Iličić
is only the third player to score 5+ goals over two legs of a Champions League
knockout tie, after Lionel Messi for Barcelona vs Bayer Leverkusen in 2011-12
(6) and Cristiano Ronaldo for Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich in 2016-17 (5).
The Italian
side is set to play their round of 16 fixture against PSG on Saturday, August
12, with the remaining fixtures of the Champions League set to be played as a
one-game knock out game, and will likely play either Atletico Madrid or RB
Salzburg in the semi-final.
PSG will be
without its star striker Kylian Mbappe as he recovers from an ankle injury
which he picked up against St Etienne, and missed out on his side’s Coupe de la
Ligue final win against Lyon to win a domestic quadruple.
Ilicic has
been in fine form this season, scoring 21 goals in 34 matches, including five
goals in the Champions League. The striker’s goals have been very crucial to
the team’s fairytale season in Italy and Europe top competition with just two
goals shy of 100 goals in Serie A.Atalanta will surely miss their top striker,
but Colombian forward Zapata and Luis Muriel have 19 goals each this season,
while Mario Pasalic and Alejandro Gomez are both on double figures. Atalanta
finished the season third on the league table as they failed to overcome Inter
Milan in their last game of the season.
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