The career of a football player is short, life is long. 3 quotes that help a young football player.

🌍 Please share with the athletes you know.

1️⃣ “Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones” — Seneca

☑ Players must avoid trading the fun of tomorrow for a great time today.

✋ There are two main risks to the football player:

1. Physical Health

The player’s body is pushed to the limit.

There are many examples of players who have trouble walking at the end of their careers.

ex: Batistuta

2. The Post-Career

Players after the end of their careers generally have 30 years until retirement age.

🚨 30 years are a lot if one has not prepared by saving and building a second career.

The football career is the starting point and not the ending point.

👉 It’s the platform from which to build something that lasts forever.

2️⃣ “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality” — Seneca

A football career has ups and downs and many disappointments.

Neymar's tears after the penalties with Croatia show that even stars experience bad moments.

Defeat is not the end of the world.

It’s just a moment where the opponent was better, more focused, and hungrier.

👉 Defeat serves to restart stronger than before, to adopt changes in the player’s routine in order to improve by 1% every day.

3️⃣ “While we wait for life, life passes. “ — Seneca

The football player must take charge of the future from a young age:

☑ Plan the career in detail without being influenced by short-term events

☑ Actively create a group of quality advisors

☑ Take advantage of popularity to meet people in other industries and find investment opportunities

☑ Planning post-career as soon as entering professionalism

👉 Our future is defined by our choices.

✅ Final Thoughts

The philosopher Seneca helps football players in 3 ways, reminding that:

1️⃣ Players should plan every detail of the career from the start and actively participate in important decisions.

2️⃣ When making decisions, football players must consider the whole life and not three or five years.

3️⃣ Career is made up of ups and downs. Nothing is irreparable. Players must use negative moments as a signal to work harder and better.

PLUS:

There are thousands of athletes who want to get to the top and yet only a few make it.

A professional player is to be considered a genius at what he or she does.

Yet very often football players sacrifice too many things including their own well-being and future.

👉 Talking with NBA and NFL athletes, I realized how much potential there is in football to support athletes better in life issues.

🔔 FOOTBALL HUMANISM® means putting the player at the center of the club's priorities and providing the best support possible.

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