Red the Bear
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Nah, was a pretty metal way to go out if we're being honest, and he did win it once beforehand so not that much of a regret.Zidane.
Nah, was a pretty metal way to go out if we're being honest, and he did win it once beforehand so not that much of a regret.Zidane.
He went out on a high and the team kicked on without him, to even greater heights, so I don't think you can argue with his decision to be honest.Cantona retiring at the age of 30 to pursue the career in acting has to be up there
That’s a name I haven’t heard in agesJermaine Pennant - footballer to Jeremy Kyle show participant to being fired from Billericay for doing webcam stuff with his wife.
He chose money instead of recognition. And that's what you get.Neymar’s not retired but it feels like he just got bored and left the game.
I heard he found a shiny Charizard in his mate's room onceched evans got addicted to pokemon go
He scored an own goal. If it's Andrés Escobar you are referring to.That Colombian player who got shot for missing a pen
ThisDavid Gills son dropping out of United to go study accountancy. I mean what a way to go
Depends on what level. He was never really rated highly in the Academy so most likely at best League 1 or League 2 level. Potentially even lower so not earning massive amounts plus his career would have been winding down at the age of 30 with no transferable skills whilst an accountancy career is only going upwards from 30.This
He was probably good enough to make a living as a pro footballer.
That's because of his persistent injuries though.Eden Hazard. Could still be playing at Ballon dor level right now.
He's definitely on A list.Adam Johnson should be on the list.
You left out his father dying which is arguably what caused his declineAdriano?
There was a time he looked like an R9 regen, only to get fat, hang around Brazilian gangsters, and just withered away into nothing, jumping around between Brazil and the MLS only to retire at the ripe old age of 34.
Fair point!Depends on what level. He was never really rated highly in the Academy so most likely at best League 1 or League 2 level. Potentially even lower so not earning massive amounts plus his career would have been winding down at the age of 30 with no transferable skills whilst an accountancy career is only going upwards from 30.
Don't think it's a really bad choice unless your confident enough that you're going to make it a good level. Lots of the better players in National League North/South players have the opportunity to go Pro in the National League/League 2/League 2 but don't take the opportunity if they have a good job as they would be losing out financially and affect their career in the long term.
Others made a permament switch, e.g. Jérémy Hélan retired aged 24 to devote his life to Islam.[...] Carlos Roa decided not to wait until his playing days were over before making a life-changing decision.
A devout Seventh-day Adventist, the former Argentina goalkeeper temporarily quit the game at 29 to prepare for the apocalypse.
Roa, better known to England fans for saving the fifth and final penalty from David Batty to knock Glenn Hoddle's team out of the 1998 World Cup in France, believed the world would end at the coming of the new Millennium and retreated to a farm in rural Argentina to preach while waiting for the four horsemen to arrive.
"The year 2000 is going to be difficult," Roa declared. "In the world, there is war, hunger, plague, much poverty, floods. I can assure you that those people who don't have a spiritual connection with God and the type of life that he wants will be in trouble."
Thankfully, Roa wasn't as talented at soothsaying as he was at saving spot-kicks and soon returned to football with his former club Mallorca.
Quite a few religious in our team thenI think the guy who beat Rooney to youngest goalscorer at the Euros ,(Vonlathon?) became religious and didn't play football on Sundays
And I’ve just read the OP completely- death aside- my badHe scored an own goal. If it's Andrés Escobar you are referring to.