Ikeme will quit game
WOLVES goalkeeper Carl Ikeme has announced his retirement – a month after revealing he is in complete remission from acute leukaemia.
Ikeme, 32, had spent the previous 12 months battling the disease, playing his last match in a victory over Fulham in March 2017.
He made more than 200 appearances for Wolves, the club he joined as a 14-year-old, winning two promotions, and spent loan spells at Accrington, Stockport, Charlton, Sheffield United, QPR, Leicester, Middlesbrough and Doncaster.
Ikeme said: “The doctor, suggested I should retire; the treatment, the toll it’s taken on my body, I can’t risk trying to come back. My health’s the main thing.”
Ikeme won 10 caps for Nigeria, who honoured him at the World Cup by naming him as their 24th squad member.
Wolves executive chairman Jeff Shi said: “Carl will always remain a part of the Wolves family.”