I’ve stopped playing football.
Sharing this helps me and will hopefully help some others too.
On Sunday I had a chat to my manager and assistant manager and told them I needed a break from football.
They were fully supportive and understanding. It wasn’t an issue with the club it was a personal issue.
Over the past few years I have been feeling increasingly unfulfilled and dissatisfied from playing football. I wasn’t happy.
I didn’t want to stop, it was all I had known. It’s all I’d done. It was my job, I was getting paid for it.
It would be so tough to just stop.
But over the past few years I have learned how to improve my mood, happiness, fulfilment and satisfaction.
I’ve found something I love doing: coaching and making videos (yes tiktoks and YouTube), you might laugh? It probably sounds a bit crazy. You’re probably right! Maybe it’s a quarter life crisis - I’m almost 24!
But I have made my decision and it feels like a weight off of my shoulders.
For the next year I want to fully focus on what I enjoy doing and what makes me happy - lots of coaching and videos. And that is why I’ve taken a break from football.

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