Juan Carlos Valeron has revealed that he will leave Deportivo La Coruna this summer after 13 years at the Spanish club.
The 37-year-old midfielder has a contract with the Spanish outfit until 2015, but has taken up the option to leave following the club's relegation from La Liga on Saturday.
"It is not the best night, but I am here to tell you that I will end my time with Deportivo after this season," Valeron told reporters on Saturday. "I think the time has come to end the cycle in A Coruna and I do it with great pain about the situation, after the night we have experienced.
"It is a decision that was taken several weeks ago, I have the ambition to come here and declare this in another light, having had the team achieve survival. In the coming weeks I will decide, this is not a retirement. It is just that my time at Deportivo has finished."
"It is particularly for a very simple reason. I have spent many years here, the latter has had a tremendous personal wear and I have reached the limit of my strength for carrying great responsibility. I need to stop, rest and then see what will happen in the future."
Real Mallorca and Real Zaragoza have also dropped out of Spain's first division.
Matt Law
