Swiss professional footballer Silvan Wallner has ended his career for religious reasons. “I want to follow Jesus Christ and the biblical day of rest has become important to me,” the 22-year-old said, according to his Austrian club FC Blau-Weiß Linz. “This means that from now on I don’t want to play football professionally on Saturdays.” Sunday is nowadays seen as the day of rest in Christian Europe but Saturday was the original sabbath, as it is in the Jewish tradition. He club announced that both sides had agreed on an early termination of his contract, which was due to run until 2026. Wallne…