In this post I am going to share with you my opinion on the unhappy ending to football’s most romantic story. The young mistreated slumdog with incredible skill who rises to the top with success, becoming ‘the best footballer ever’. Now while this is the perfect material for a sports movie or article, and though it actually does happen a lot, the thing I found worthy of writing about is the end of the story. What ensues after the credits of the movie have rolled out? What really happens after they have achieved fame? How do they handle the new pressure? To tell you the truth they don’t. At least not most of the time. They are often from a poor bunch, fighting to stay alive and not knowing when their next meal will come around. And then suddenly, Bang! They are the centre of attention and they have millions thrown at them. They play football for a couple of years, thrilling the globe with their exceptional skill and expertise and send fortunes back to their now rich families, but what then? What next? They have so much money that they don’t know what to do with it and it is then, that they discover the world of woman, alcohol, and drugs (ya stop playing dumb you Argentineans we still remember Maradona)(sniff sniff). Not like these things are career threatening or even “BAD”... in moderation. A word that some people don’t know. In these next posts I will go over the exciting but ultimately sad stories of three notorious footballers that rose to fame but fell to controversy and shame, pulled down by their weight of their vices.
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