"?Former Fulham and Crystal Palace Brede Hangeland has called it a day on his playing career and officially hung up his boots age 35, he revealed to "?Sky Sports on Friday.
The Norwegian had a long career in England, he has started 282 games for Fulham between 2008 and 2014; after he signed from Copenhagen for £2.5m.
BREAKING: Former Fulham & Crystal Palace defender Brede Hangeland retires from football #SSNHQ https://t.co/47WJ9V36Eu
The giant, who stands at 6'4, then joined fellow London side Crystal Palace in 2014 on a free, where he featured 25 times before being released this summer.
The American-born centre-back also enjoyed spells with Viking and FC Copenhagen (as previously mentioned) and in total tallied up 23 goals over his career; mostly from corners.
Speaking with "?Sky Sports he exclusively revealed his decision to quit playing the game, claiming: "I've thought long and hard about my footballing career and I've decided its my time to end it.''
''I'm announcing my retirement after a long time, and half of that time in this lovely country."
Although Hangeland's playing career may be over he still remains very optimistic as to what the future may hold for him, when he said: "You can choose to be sad that its over or be happy that it happened.''
"I think its important to know when the time is right to finish, and with the aches and pains, I'm 35-years old and I feel I can't do the job I want to do anymore so it's time to move on."
Everyone at #ffc would like to wish Brede Hangeland the very best in his retirement! Thanks for the memories, Brede. pic.twitter.com/q80nhcYkOm
While on-air the giant defender relived one his best footballing memories. It was back when he played for Fulham in 2010, in a match against Manchester United in which in the dying minutes of the game he scored a header to level the score up; only five minutes after scoring an own-goal.
Reliving the tale he said: "We were playing Manchester United at home at Craven Cottage and there was me scoring a fine header, that was a lovely moment, back when I was good.''
''That made it 2-2 because this for me personally was a strange game because just before that I scored an own goal to make it 2-1 for Manchester United. A roller-coaster of a game for myself."
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