Football Europooro: so easy a fifteen year old can go pro.
I doubt he will break into the first team for a number of years yet, if at all. It's very early yet to say if he will be good - Bojan Krkic, for example, was dubbed "The next Messi" when he was 16. Now he plays for Stoke.And I played football at school with a guy who left to play for United when he was 16 or 17, and as far as I know he still does.
Hey, cheer up bud. You've got more going for you than I do. I'll tell you a little story while I'm at it. I traveled with a friend once. I came along with him just for the sake of it. And he was helping another friend in the province to buy a boat. My friend knows a lot about boats, spent a lifetime working on them.So, there's me and my friend, and this other guy, a good friend to my friend. He's retired, and compared to us, quite wealthy. And all three of us were walking down the docks. Two of us are poor as shit. Literally no money in our names. And then there's this guy, with 500,000 dollars in his wallet to spend on a boat.And you know what? To the people on those docks with yachts and million/billion dollar boats, that man with 500,000 dollars worth of retirement savings was nothing. To them, he was a joke. And if that man was a joke, what were me and my friend? If that man with 500,000 was nothing to them, what were we?I know I'm not cut out for anything grand. I dropped out of highschool at grade 10. I know my life won't ever amount to anything spectacular. All I'd like is a home to call my own, and to do the very best I can to take care of those around me. And I admit, some days it's depressing. Every single person I know, has left this place. Traveled to the great cities beyond. Traveled to universities, achieved degrees, started families. I talked to a friend just a few days ago who now owns an entire division of a big big company in the city he lives in.And here's me. I haul wood all summer and I do the best I can to work towards the future for my family, and work like mad non stop, for nothing other than the fact that we have security for what's ahead, a few months from now, to a few years from now. Any money I make evaporates into dust, no matter how hard I try to hold on to it.Compared to every person I mentioned, to them, on the scale of things, I am nothing. But that doesn't change the reality that I have my own life to live, my own fight to continue fighting, and the will in my bones to keep going.Be proud of what you have, no matter how small it is.
I played against an academy side last year, lost 13-0. The strikers and midfielders I was desperately trying to restrict, and I did, it could've been 20-0, these guys are some of the best U14s in the country, and it's crazy to think I was equal with them for 70 minutes.
Which academy?If it's Southampton, I'll be damn impressed. Or Barcelona, but I don't think you live in Spain.
This makes me sad
