For every settled 30-year-old who insists he can’t possibly go 40 times a year, there will be an 18-year-old who will
For a few years there, professional athletes had run out of things to complain about. It’s hard to wedge revenue sharing for millionaires in with climate change and Ukraine and keep a straight face.
Maybe you’re reading this on the train or the bus. You’re thinking about how you’ve got to do 10 indispensable life-admin tasks in the 45 minutes you have for lunch. Then you’ve got to sprint home at 6 p.m. so you can get there before your kids burn the house down.It’s true that the modernprofessional plays more than his typical predecessor. The better he is, and the better his team is, the more he plays. A really top pro can now play most of the calendar year with only a few weeks of vacation.
That soft whistling you hear is hundreds of soccer players having a problem with lowering their wages to play less. Saying it doesn’t make it true. Pros may put in a lot of hours, but they are freed of worry while they do so. Someone else does their laundry and makes their travel arrangements. If they need a cleaning service or a daycare, that is fixed for them. All they have to do is show up and do the job. Everything else in their lives is smoothed over.
There used to be two ways to tell the difference between great players and good ones – money and exposure. The more you made and the more the rest of us saw you, the more you mattered. These guys aren’t young. They need some cosseting. Until recently, there was a term for this sort of player: retired.
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