Some high-performance athletes usually plan how they will spend their time when they retire, and boxers usually look to invest in a business and there are those who venture into the media, but the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk has his sights set on continuing in another sport when he decides to hang up his gloves.
Last week, the Briton Tyson Fury announced his retirement from boxing, a month after losing the rematch against Usyk, who consolidated himself as the heavyweight champion.
For now, he still has one more fight in the pipeline, against the winner of the IBF heavyweight title fight between Daniel Dubois and Joseph Parker on February 22 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Now it is striking that a heavyweight pugilist intends to devote himself entirely to soccer, as he confessed in a statement to Ring Podcast about his plans when he says goodbye to boxing: “I will be a soccer player.”
Usyk shows off contract with a professional club in Ukraine
Although it may seem crazy, Oleksandr Usyk made his debut in 2022 and boasted that he is already a player for the Polissya team and that is where he will seek to continue, although at 38 years of age it would be little time he could have left to be at an acceptable level to be a professional soccer player.
“I am a professional player. I am under contract with the Ukrainian team Polissya. They play in the top flight, Polissya, a Ukrainian team,” Usyk said, boasting that they beat Shakhtar Donetsk and that “now we are in first place”.
Usyk confessed his fondness for Dynamo Kyiv, a club he began to follow because it was the first one he saw in a stadium with his father, but he said that despite his affection, he hopes to score a goal against them in the future, in addition to boasting about his current team.
It’s a club with a lot of history, but Polissya gave me the opportunity and I signed a contract.
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