GMok
Full Member
In football news, we get to read non-stop about multimillionaire footballers and their insane wages, e.g. Mbappe. These footballer's PR and related social media also makes sure that they are always in the limelight, be it for good or bad reasons.
However, the sad truth is a bigger percentage of aspiring footballers don't make the cut, and they are forgotten from public memory pretty quickly. Multitude of causes exists for why these footballers don't rise to the shiny side of football, but injury is a dominant reason. We learn of clubs releasing multiple academy youngsters each day. Some of them join lower league or non-league clubs and make a career there, some can't even do that. How do they get on with their lives, considering the wages in non-league football are nothing compared to the elite level?
Doesn't football owe these people something? I mean, players and and managers earning in millions can easily donate in a trust fund to take care of footballers or former footballers in need of money. Footballers do have a union, don't they?
There was an excellent article from Sid Lowe on this some 3-4 years ago.
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However, the sad truth is a bigger percentage of aspiring footballers don't make the cut, and they are forgotten from public memory pretty quickly. Multitude of causes exists for why these footballers don't rise to the shiny side of football, but injury is a dominant reason. We learn of clubs releasing multiple academy youngsters each day. Some of them join lower league or non-league clubs and make a career there, some can't even do that. How do they get on with their lives, considering the wages in non-league football are nothing compared to the elite level?
Doesn't football owe these people something? I mean, players and and managers earning in millions can easily donate in a trust fund to take care of footballers or former footballers in need of money. Footballers do have a union, don't they?
There was an excellent article from Sid Lowe on this some 3-4 years ago.
Note: Apologies, if such a thread already exists. Moderators are requested to close this in case of duplication.