Quote from: GrowTow on September 28, 2019, 10:09:52 PMMy sad football/soccer story.Holy that sucks bro, but I mean there's a lot of crazy good 5'6 football legends lol ... look at Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Maradona .. they're all around that height, but english football is different I understand that
Played all my life, got scouted by a football team at 13.
Started earning 3000 a month playing for the biggest team in my city's academy. (Premier league team)
Got dropped at 16 for not growing for 3 years whereas everyone else became 6ft+ and I was the vice captain as well so shows how important height really is. Of course I understand it though, I wasn't gonna win any headers as a 5'6 dude.
To this day I still remember my coach saying, you would've been on the senior team if it weren't for your height. Imagine being told you were 4 inches too short from earning 50k a week.
Quote from: Movie on September 28, 2019, 10:15:42 PM Holy that sucks bro, but I mean there's a lot of crazy good 5'6 football legends lol ... look at Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Maradona .. they're all around that height, but english football is different I understand that
Quote from: GrowTow on September 28, 2019, 10:09:52 PMMy sad football/soccer story.
Played all my life, got scouted by a football team at 13.
Started earning 3000 a month playing for the biggest team in my city's academy. (Premier league team)
Got dropped at 16 for not growing for 3 years whereas everyone else became 6ft+ and I was the vice captain as well so shows how important height really is. Of course I understand it though, I wasn't gonna win any headers as a 5'6 dude.
To this day I still remember my coach saying, you would've been on the senior team if it weren't for your height. Imagine being told you were 4 inches too short from earning 50k a week.
Quote from: GrowTow on September 30, 2019, 04:59:20 PMYeah a lot of people told me that I should go to a different country and i'll definitely make it in places like Spain, Italy and Portugal but my mind had been made up by then, plus I was never an elite player, 2nd tier at most. If I had pursued it, i'd probably be playing for a mid-table spanish team earning like 15 000 a week.
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