| How many injuries would it take you to stop playing? 09:50 - Jul 18 with 418 views | FrimleyBlue |
Just interested really in people's thoughts on how much they'd cling onto playing football before deciding it's best to hang up the boots and maybe go into coaching etc instead and perhaps limit any body issues later in life
Seen a fair number of players now go through the same injury time and time again, get back, play a bit then injured again, play abit, injured
Saw the other day, ex town academy striker Simpson is now likely to miss a large chunk of this season already due to another injury, which seems to be his footballing life since he's left us.
So just curious, Would you just keep trying as long as you can, or would you be more cautious and think about the future more yourself? |  |
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| How many injuries would it take you to stop playing? on 10:08 - Jul 18 with 331 views | Guthrum |
It's difficult to get one's head into that situation. These are people who have been doing nothing but playing football since childhood, it has literally been their whole life. What would they not do to continue that path while it is theoretically possible?
Going into coaching is not a straightforward alternative. It's a different aptitude and set of skills*. Some inherent, others needing in-depth study**. Plus there are fewer opportunities, especially to reach the upper levels offering similar success and money to playing in the Champ or Prem.
They are also still relativiely young, twenties or early thirties. I don't think, at that age, one thinks too hard about what the knees will feel like at sixty years old. It's too far in the future. Or the realisation that, after football, you have to pay for your own pain-relieving injections.
* See: Roy Keane, Jose Mourinho.
** The amount of work and education McKenna put in before achieving his first big break. |  |
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| How many injuries would it take you to stop playing? on 10:11 - Jul 18 with 309 views | DropCliffsNotBombs |
I hung up my boots when my acl went in left knee for the third time.
Opted for safer sports like badminton... Promptly snapped my achilles. |  | | |
| How many injuries would it take you to stop playing? on 10:58 - Jul 18 with 194 views | bsw72 |
Through last years at school was probably playing on average 3-4 full matches per week, School, County, Sat Club and Sunday club - included the switch to mens footy at age of 16, paying Intermediate league standard on the Saturday (way back when there was such a thing).
In my late teens developed bad shin splints which turned into pretty bad stress fractures in both legs; forced to take ~18/24 months away from playing at a decent level and had some options for US Uni scholarships which I subsequently missed out on.
Came back in my early 20s, played mens football for another 10 years or so, through 2 knee ops and 1 ankle op.
Gave up 11-a-side in my early/mid 30s due to knees/ankles and generally the violent state of mid level amateur mens football. Started playing 5-a-side in a weekly league with friends, most of us had played again to a decent standard as youngsters, team of skilled but aging/unfit footballers.
Finally gave up with serious leg injury just before my 40th, which due to complications ended up with a far more serious condition that left me hospitalised and being treated for 6+ months.
*That* was the point I gave up playing, too much risk to my health and to get my body back to the level my brain wanted to play the game at.
Having been pretty selfish about how I put playing football in front of my family and my own health, decided it was time to grow up. |  | | |
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