BERLIN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Tony Yeboah's Bundesliga career
might come to an end when the veteran Ghanaian striker meets his
Hamburg SV bosses on Tuesday.
Yeboah's adviser Joachim Leukel said on Monday that Yeboah
could be released from his contract running until the end of the
season after the meeting.
The 35-year-old has played only five matches this season as
neither Frank Pagelsdorf nor Kurt Jara, who succeeded Pagelsdorf
as Hamburg coach last month, have made him a first choice
player.
'Tony is not interested in sitting on the bench for the
entire second part of the championship," Leukel told German
sports news agency SID. 'Perhaps it would be better to draw a
line.'
Leukel said he had received several offers from other
countries and Yeboah might pursue his career elsewhere.
Yeboah was convicted of tax evasion and fined 360,000 marks
by a German court last January. The offence dated back to his
Eintracht Frankfurt days in the early 1990s.
The player said in June that he might retire over a
financial dispute with the lawyer who defended him in the tax
evasion case.
Yeboah has scored 96 goals in 223 Bundesliga games and was
twice the Bundesliga's top scorer during his Eintracht spell, in
1993 and 1994.
The striker, who has won 36 caps for Ghana, left Eintracht
for English premier league club Leeds United before returning to
Germany by signing for Hamburg in 1997.
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