Marc Albrighton has confirmed his retirement from playing football after helping Leicester City secure promotion back to the Premier League. The

34-year-old parted ways with Leicester this summer and feels the time is right to hang up his boots having played professionally in 2009.

Albrighton has been a pundit since the start of the new season and, when asked why he was hanging up his boots now, said: “I think for a number of reasons. “I think

with the end of last season at Leicester and the things that happened in the summer, I gave myself two or three months to see if I missed football or not. ufabet http://ufabet999.app If I wanted to come back I would have looked for a new club. “

I think enough time had passed and I realised pretty quickly it was time.

“I didn’t miss playing that much and I was enjoying the other side of it, whether it was working with the media or spending a bit more time with my family. My son is at an age where I feel it is the right time to retire, to rethink his career and I am really pleased with how it has turned out,”

Albrighton came through the Aston Villa academy and made 101 appearances before joining Leicester in 2014.

Since then he has been a key member of the Foxes’ surprise Premier League title triumph in 2015-16.

He made 313 appearances for Leicester, scoring 19 goals, as well as winning the FA Cup and Championship with the clubs.