Ka taƙaita labarin:  Tsohon dan wasan gaba na Jamhuriyar Ireland David Connolly ya sanar da yin ritaya daga kwallon kafa nan take. Dan wasan mai shekaru 37 ya buga wasanni sama da 400 a lokacin aikinsa, tare da Watford, Feyenoord, Sunderland, Leicester da Southampton a cikin kungiyoyin da ya buga wa, yayin da ya lashe wasanni 41 na kasa da kasa. Connolly ya koma Sky Bet League Two na Wimbledon a watan Janairu bayan da aka soke kwantiraginsa da Portsmouth ta hanyar yarda da juna amma, bayan da ya zira kwallaye daya a wasanni takwas, ya yanke shawarar rataye takalmansa bayan tattaunawa da kocinsa da tsohon abokin aikinsa Neal Ardley. Tsohon dan wasan gaba na Jamhuriyar Ireland David Connolly ya ci wa kungiyarsa kwallo ta uku a wasan Cyrpus a shekarar 2001. Connolly ya gaya wa gidan yanar gizon Dons na hukuma: 'Na ja Neal gefe don tattaunawa ta zuciya da zuciya kuma na ji cewa yanzu ne lokacin da zan kira shi a yau. 'Kamar yadda lokaci ya wuce na ji cewa fara wasanni yana da wuya kuma haka ma yana tafiya sama da ƙasa don fitowa daga benci na minti 10 ko haka. Neal yana buƙatar dan wasan da zai iya wasa (Adebayo) Akinfenwa kuma ya fara wasanni kuma ba ni ba ne. ' Ardley ya gaya wa Dons Player: 'Na yi ƙoƙarin yin magana da shi, amma tunaninsa ya yi. Na gayyaci David ya dawo ya yi horarwa a kulob din a duk lokacin da ya shirya. Connolly ya taka leda a kungiyoyin Ingila da dama, ciki har da Sunderland (hoto a nan a shekara ta 2007)
Tsohon dan wasan Republic of Ireland David Connolly ya yi ritaya daga kwallon kafa. Connolly ya lashe wasanni 41 na kasa da kasa don kasarsa. Tsoffin kungiyoyin sa sun hada da Watford, Sunderland, Leicester da Southampton. Kwanan nan, Connolly ya buga wa kungiyar Wimbledon League Two wasa.