RE: ⚽ Is The Grass Greener?
Your story sounds a lot like a friend I used to play 5-a-side with 🙂 He was technically brilliant and left-footed. He captained Bournemouth Reserves at the age of 17 but the training and the inability to do anything other than football eventually broke him. Having already been warned, him and a few others went for a night out, just a few days before the end of season break. He knew what he was doing and wanted out - so they all go released.
He ended up going into finance and being very successful - all of the skills, determination, leadership qualities, etc. that he learnt on the pitch were applied off of it.
I can't help but think "what might have been" - Bournemouth were promoted to the Premier League a few years later - with players that he was better than. Imagine that. I nutmegged him more than once 🤣 He never regretted it though.
I would have liked us to promote Michael Gilkes to the role until the end of the season. He's the Under-23 manager and a fans-favourite from his playing days. But we'll see. His first game in charge is being played now - a game I expect us to win.
Yes, you need to give a chance to a coach who leads the juniors if he is good and that is the right and logical move they should have made.
In football today and even in my time when I played, it was not the most talented players who succeeded, but the most persistent. A lot of talented players are overestimated, because a talented player has an innate sense of the ball and quickly learns the game while a persistent player makes up for it with his strength and learns slowly but in the long run he survives.
So today I also watch people on television as expert commentators and I played with them and they were nothing special.
But simply the more you invest the more you get, with a little luck that is always needed.