FC Schalke 04 and Gerald Asamoah will go their separate ways at the end of the season. This is what the club icon has to say about his departure from the Royal Blues after almost 25 years.
It was a bombshell, even if it had been hinted at recently. Gerald Asamoah has to leave FC Schalke 04 at the end of the season. His departure was announced to the public in a rather cool press release on Friday.
This marks the end of Asamoah’s time at S04 after almost 25 years. Asamoah then addressed the Schalke fans in a video message published in the club’s media. “Dear Schalke fans, my time has come. My time at Schalke has come to an end. It’s tough, really tough. I couldn’t have dreamed of this. But that’s life,” said Asamoah, whose position as Head of Licensing will no longer exist at the Royal Blues.
You could see how difficult it was for Asamoah to say goodbye. His broad smile, usually his trademark, looked pained.
“Schalke has been with me for most of my life. I moved to Schalke when I was 20. I didn’t think I would stay here for so long. I fell in love with this club. People have accepted me for who I am,” said Asamoah. “And it’s always the case that everything passes at some point. There is melancholy, of course. Because everyone who knows me, no matter where I’ve been, no matter where I am, everyone associates “Asa” with Schalke 04. “
I’m a Schalke player through and through and that will always be the case
Gerald Asamoah
It will be hard for him to get up in the morning and no longer drive on the highway towards Schalke. “I’m leaving, but I’ll always be connected to Schalke,” said the former international. “The club has done something to me. I’m a Schalke man through and through and that will always be the case.”
Then it got even more personal: “I was never the perfect ‘Asa’. “Asa” sometimes laughed, “Asa” sometimes was in a bad mood, “Asa” sometimes did bad things. But despite that, I never noticed that the staff, the fans, the people who love the club pointed the finger at me. They just accepted me for who I am,” explained the Ghanaian-born player. He will continue to come to Gelsenkirchen regularly in the future and watch the games of “his” club