Usain Bolt's Soccer Career Is Over
Usain Bolt's Soccer Career Is Over
Usain Bolt has announced that he is done with soccer after a brief professional stint in 2018.

The professional soccer dream is over for the greatest sprinter of all-time.
32-year-old Jamaican Usain Bolt, who swept Olympic gold in the 100m and 200m in 2008, 2012 and 2016 before retiring after the 2017 season, has announced that he is done pursuing soccer after a brief stint last year with Australian A-League club Central Coast Mariners.
"It was a good experience. I really enjoyed just being in a team and it was different from track and field and it was fun while it lasted,” Bolt told Reuters.
The highlight of Bolt’s short-lived second athletic career was a two-goal performance on Oct. 12 against Macarthur South West United. Less than a week later he declined a two-year contract offer from a semi-professional team from Malta. Bolt was also offered a contract from Central Coast which he refused as well.
With that, the athletic career of the 100m and 200m world record holder is finally complete. Bolt said he will pursue business interests going forward, which should be plentiful for one of the most popular former athletes in the world. The soccer dream is dead, but at least we’ll always have this memory:
Anything is possible don’t think limits pic.twitter.com/bcLgxnBB8x
— Usain St. Leo Bolt (@usainbolt) October 12, 2018