Moritz Leitner has not been an energetic skilled footballer for 4 years now. After leaving FC Zurich, the midfielder hung up his boots at simply 29. However that doesn’t imply Leitner merely put his toes up afterwards.
Fairly the alternative: the now 33-year-old devoted himself totally to padel. The more and more standard sport appears to be proper up his avenue—and he seems to have fairly a knack for it, too.
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Leitner is now ranked thirty second in Germany’s padel rankings. He just lately spelled out his ambition to ‘Sport Bild’: “I need to flip skilled in padel, too.”
His super work ethic ought to assist him get there. “I do not assume there is a extra padel-mad monkey on the market than me—with my perspective and my ardour for the game,” Leitner mentioned. “In fact, I come from soccer and do not have the tennis background that the majority different gamers have. However I completely adore it and provides a thousand p.c each day.”
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One other factor in his favour: Leitner is aware of precisely how to achieve sport. As a teen, he gained the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund in 2012. A 12 months later, Jürgen Klopp’s younger weapons additionally made all of it the best way to the Champions League remaining.
Let’s examine whether or not Leitner can attain related heights in padel…
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