Says since he retirement he hates his life, feels useless and he's having depression/sudoku thoughts
Go become a GK coach or something, shit, so many options for someone of his resume.
We should all send him nice messages on social media. Does he speak English? Nice messages only; I am not a psycho or a cyberbully. The impending revolution will need men like him.
>>154644081I hope he doesn't Enke himself.also this >>154644513wtf, any club could use a former international and world cup winner as a coach for their GKs, he'd get a job in a heart beat.
fut legendrip
Why always goalkeepers?t. also a depressed former goalkeeper
>>154649645regret for not being good enough to play outfield
>>154649571>men like him
Manninger's death broke him. Poor lad
>>154644081Considering how sudden it is to just stop playing from one season to the next, contrasted with how long his career has been, it makes sense.He's been doing the same thing since he was a young teen if not earlier, and kept going as a starter until he was 40.And as a starter too, so no "pre-retirement" playing fewer minutes.It's not a rare feeling for people who retire but it's probably worse for athletes who have to quit suddenly and who actually liked what they were doing and had little to nothing else in their lives.
>>154649645reckon goalkeepers must feel the most adrenaline on the pitch.
>>154649645as a GK, it's a very isolated post.You usually have very few friends on the squad, and pressure to be the best everyday. You're not guarantee to make the squad, even if you're good because the coach either has a system, or your competition is better than yourself. So you gotta autistically work hard, giving you a high adrenaline dopamine rush. And once you retire, you no longer have it, so it's over.it's a drug addict that has been tolerant to a very destructive drug, and you take it out one day, suddenly. GK is mentally the worse position in Football.
Nothing can match the buzz of playing competitively, or the social status of being a high profile active player.Even though retired footballers are (or should be) comfortable financially for the rest of their lives, these are the things they can’t replace, and with every year past retirement they become just like any other person nobody cares about, that’s tough for the ego.
Not related directly to OP, but here the common footballing joke/stereotype about goalkeepers is that they are dumb, i wonder if it's the same in other countries?
Mandanda, coupet, landreau, ramé*sips*Those were the days
>>154649645Goalkeepers have arguably the most demanding job on the field.
>>154650745More that they weren't good for any other position (literally me)
>>154651642>More that they weren't good for any other position (literally me)heh, here that stereotype was for the left backat least before this modern era when backs became so important in high level football, don't know how kids feel about it nowadays
>>154649645You have to be mentally ill to willingly become a goalkeeper. It's not the profession itself that depresses you: you were already broken from the beginning.
>>154650745The stereotype in England is that they are autistic psychopaths. They cannot fit in with normal society, and that's why they aren't in the "proper" team with everyone else.
