David Beckham can make a name for himself in the fashion industry, Fowler is a real estate tycoon, but the rest are not so lucky.

said that Cantona, who devoted himself to the film industry, is actually a trick in big-budget movies; Shevchenko, who has now retired from politics and returned to Ukrainian football; And Owen's horse racing win was his most glorious victory since entering the sport. According to the Retired Players' Association, only 3% of English professional players continue to live a glamorous life after retirement, while only 5% of players can continue to make a living from football.

This means that 95% of the players will say goodbye to football for all, and football is almost the only skill in their lives.

In fact, Santhiago also understands that not all players are profligate, and many of them do significantly reduce their spending standards after retiring, but their lack of education and skills make it difficult for them to find a decent job, and they can only sit on the empty side of their long retirement career.

Former Leeds striker Dean, who scored the first goal of the Premier League's first year, said in an interview with the BBC: "It's hard to start a business after a player retires." "For his part, he qualified as a coach after retiring and sent out resumes to a number of clubs, but all of them were in vain. Eventually, he was out of work for three years before he got a job at a club in Norway.

More players, not even a chance to return to football.

Manchester United star Neil Webb, who played 110 games for Manchester United. At the height of his career, Beckham had just joined Manchester United's youth team, and Beckham's first job was to shine shoes for Neil Webb. And now, Neil Webb is a postman. There are also former Bayern striker Wiegman, who is a painter, and López, a former Chilean national team player who is a miner......

There are so many lessons from the past that many players are starting to tremble in the prime of their careers. Manchester United player legend Andy Cole once said: "In my days of football, I was always afraid of the reality and the future, I was afraid of not playing, I was afraid of not playing, I was afraid of being bad on the pitch. Over and over again, I was in a vicious circle. ”

The pressure on the field, the emptiness off the field, and the confusion of retiring have led many players to a path of no return for depression, alcoholism, and drug abuse. The University of Turin conducted a study of the medical records of 7,000 players, and the results showed that players were six times more likely to suffer from mental illness than the general population.

Even so, there are many unscrupulous media outlets who chase and beat these players, exposing their drunkenness and embarrassment, and even ignoring basic professional ethics for the sake of eye-catching news. Gascoigne's sister once accused the "Sun" reporter, saying that in order to take pictures of Gascoigne's alcoholism, the reporter took the initiative to buy alcohol and put it at Gascoigne's doorstep, and then sat and waited for him to get dressed.

At the same time, they face the threat of professional diseases after retiring. The New York Magnetic Resonance Research Center found that professional players will compete for an average of 885 to 1,550 headers per year, and players with more than 1,800 heads perform extremely poorly on memory tests. West Brom star Astre Astre died young from a brain injury caused by a long-term header, and there are other tough injuries from his playing days that will last a lifetime.

For example, Batistuta has had almost all of his ankle cartilage removed due to multiple surgeries, and the two bones collided directly when he walked, which was very painful. At the worst of his time, he was unable to walk, and the bathroom was only 3 meters away from him, but he couldn't walk, and ended up urinating on the bed. Today's God of War is still waiting for the advancement of artificial ankle technology......

This is real professional football.

Even in a country like England, where the professional hierarchy is so well-established, up to 700 professional players lose their jobs every year. More than half of that are academy players, as the industry has such a low success rate, with up to 75 per cent of players in England alone being eliminated every year between the ages of 16 and 20, and at the same time missing out on the best of their studies. The other part of the unemployed players is those who have reached the peak of their lives through layers of selection, but there is no future star at the age of 35.

And what about Spain, which has always been in a bad place?

These are only known to Shengti and others, who are really professional players, and he understands even more that there are some things that his teammates can't say at the moment, so they can only look at themselves.

In this regard, after thinking about it for a long time, it was finally difficult to refuse everyone's gaze, so he could only hesitate and said: "Well, I know very well what everyone means, but this is obviously not a matter that can make up my mind and make a decision quickly, I need to discuss it with the team I invest in, after all, this kind of thing is not something I can say alone." ”

With that, Saint-Tiago looked at his teammates with sincere eyes, hoping they could understand him.

The so-called investment team in Santi's mouth is actually only Isabella and himself, but at this time, he really can't make a decision immediately, and he wants to have a discussion with Isabella. Santi is not a heartless person, and he can choose to help his teammates within reason, but he prefers not to affect his own interests, and it is better to form a win-win result.

Hearing the tone of Sainty's reveal, all the players were relieved, and they were not embarrassed by Saintty, they could only raise their glasses to Saintty frequently, looking at the glass on the dinner table, Saintty was in a trance in front of him, and he couldn't help but sigh Who can say that the player must be glamorous? Even if there is, it is only with a small number of top players.

After skipping this section, the players also completely talked about it, and began to talk about some of who's troubles, or some major news in world football today, and soon the time was close to the early hours of the morning, and everyone also left in a drunkenness, looking at the teammates who were already staggering, Saintie also laughed, fortunately, there is no need to train tomorrow.

After seeing off his teammates one by one, Saintie turned around and suddenly found that Banega was still looking at him with a guilty face, he knew his friend's thoughts, this kid was guilty that he hadn't drunk much wine all night, which was not like his style at all. So he walked up to Shengdi and hugged him, and didn't say anything haha, and said directly: "David, don't worry, I don't blame you, but I still want to remind you that whether I agree to their investment in the end or not, I hope you can join in." ”

"Holy Ty, I'm hey"

Banega suddenly felt a warm current in his heart when he heard Santiago's words, opened his mouth, and finally nodded vigorously, then changed the topic and quickly took a taxi and left.

After sending off all the team members, and proposing some subtle improvements to the dishes, and telling the chef that he needed to take into account some Spanish tastes and styles, Santi walked out of his own small shop after packing up everything, and it was almost half past one in the middle of the night, and he didn't open any more projects with a tired face, but fell asleep soon after arriving home.

The next day is the day of the sampling physical examination a week before the kick-off of La Liga, and La Liga officials will randomly select players from each team for sampling inspection, but it is generally the captain and main striker of each team, who has nothing to do with Santi, which also allowed him to sleep lazily until noon.

After a brief wash and lunch, Isabella, who had received a call from Santi in advance, also arrived at the door and introduced her into the house, where Santi carefully recounted the last night's party and asked Isabella what she thought.

Surprisingly, Isabella's eyes lit up at first, but she quickly fell into thought again, and only after half an hour did she raise her head again and say her opinion.

In Isabella's eyes, it is obviously feasible to accept the investment of Santi's teammates, after all, it is difficult to grow big just by relying on Santi's current economic strength, and it will take a lot of time to recover the cost alone, but the scope must be narrowed.

According to her suggestion, in addition to Santi himself, it is best to recruit four more people, and they must all be the kind of players with good conduct and no bad hobbies such as gambling, only in this way can the business be controlled within a controllable range, after all, as a restaurant opened by a well-known player, the name must be Santiago, and it cannot be affected by any negative influence.

At the same time, there is no rush to open a branch, mainly to vigorously promote, and require members who want to invest must sign a strict and demanding contract, stipulating that they can only get due dividends, and cannot have any impact on the direction of business.

Santy also agreed on these points, and after the two decided, Isabella went to the lawyer to start working on the contract, while Santy began to think about which teammates to buy.

Banega is definitely one, although this guy is fond of alcohol and women, but it is still okay to only buy shares without a name, and the captain plus the compatriot Rodriguez is also counted as one, this is an extremely mature Argentine, with a harmonious family and three children, I believe he will definitely pay attention to it and will not mess around.

As for the other two, Stanti is Italian Godin and Pire, after contacting Stanti also has a general understanding of the character of the two, they are very reliable people, and relying on Piré's influence Stanti can also further prepare for the future opening of the British market, if Pire is unwilling, then Rossi is also a good choice.

In the afternoon, after contacting the four people in private, and receiving positive and positive answers, the five people jointly decided to meet again in three days, and signed an investment agreement on the same day, Banega and Godin each contributed 1 million euros, while Rodriguez contributed 3 million euros, and Pire took out 5 million euros in one go, which shows his confidence in this business.