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Germany 2014 World Cup winner Per Mertesacker speaks to TV before the German DFB Cup soccer match between Augsburg and Bayern Munich at the WWK-Arena. Mertesacker will leave his role as Arsenal's head of youth development at the end of the season after eight years, the Premier League leaders said on Monday. Tom Weller/dpa
Germany 2014 World Cup winner Per Mertesacker will leave his role as Arsenal's head of youth development at the end of the season after eight years, the Premier League leaders said on Monday.
The 41-year-old former Hanover, Werder Bremen and Arsenal player said he wanted to take on a new challenge.
"Arsenal is and will always be a very special club to me, so this was a difficult decision," he said in a statement.
"I am very thankful for the trust the club put in me when transitioning from a first-team player directly into the role as Head of Academy. Now it is time for me to move on and explore something new and push myself even further."
Mertesacker, also a pundit on German television, played for the Gunners for seven years before retiring and won the FA Cup three times.
Arsenal chief executive Richard Garlick said: "We support Per’s decision to pursue something new, but we will be incredibly sad to see him leave at the end of the season."
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