Adam Goodes has no desire to reconnect with the AFL and has dismissed the notion he’d become a code commissioner after he was booed into playing retirement, ground down by racial abuse.

Enduring fault lines stem from Goodes’ sadness at how he came to detest football due to relentless crowd booing through 2014-2015 and a sense he was let down by the AFL’s hierarchy.

Adam Goodes: "The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me." Credit:Nic Walker

The AFL issued a formal apology to Goodes in June, addressing its mishandling of the booing period that took a grave toll on the wellbeing of a player champion and 2014 Australian of the Year.

Goodes has detailed the depths of his anguish for the first time in an interview for the Spectrum section of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, describing how he retired as an "emotional wreck".