Former Nottingham Forest striker Nicklas Bendtner has announced he is hanging up his boots at the age of 33.
The Dane has decided to retire from playing, and says he is keen to turn his hand to coaching.
Bendtner arrived at the City Ground with much fanfare in 2016 but struggled to live up to his high-profile billing.
He stayed for barely six months with the Reds in the 2016/17 campaign, making 17 appearances - eight of those as a substitute - and scored two goals.
“I miss it every day, but I am also aware that there is an end date in this job,” he said in the show Bendtner & Philine on Discovery +.
“I think I'll spend a lot of time understanding that it's really over now.
“Now I will find something else that gives me what football has given me in all the years.”
Bendtner says he is taking his coaching badges, with a view to the next stage of his career.
“Football is a big part of my life and I cannot leave it,” he said.
“That is why I am in the process of taking the coaching education. I hope it will give me as much or maybe more than it did as a player.
“That way, I will always be a part of football.”
The former Denmark international started out at FC Copenhagen, before moving to Arsenal at the age of 16.
He had loan spells at Birmingham City, Sunderland and Juventus during his time with the Gunners, then moved on to Wolfsburg, followed by Forest.
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Bendtner saw out the remainder of his playing days in Denmark, with Rosenborg, Copenhagen and then Tarnby last year.
He says he has missed being away from football recently, particularly with the social restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
“All my life I’ve been playing football and then it just stops from one day to the next,” he is quoted in Danish website B.T.
“Then you suddenly stand outside and really want to do a lot of things, but I have not been able to because of the corona.
"The feeling of standing inside the stadium and the rush you get is impossible to get anywhere else."
