Despite a goalless first half, Swansea fans were still confident of winning the game as the home side had the advantage. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Judging from the several statistics in the first half, it was indeed Swan Lake that spread wild on the tiger's head, but almost most people did not notice how terrible the tiger's accumulated anger was once it erupted.

Hull City fans who went to cheer for the away team were also pessimistic, although seeing many Premier League stars starting made them see the hope of at least being able to get away from the road, but the passivity of the game scene, and the unfamiliar footwork of General Fan, who had not yet adapted to the Premier League, made them worried.

Could it be that the tiger who has brought in new reinforcements still has no way to revive the tiger's power?

Hey, think about it, Hull City fans, when did your team go to power? In addition to relegation, it is still relegation.

Bruce White and Liu Yichuan saw it clearly as onlookers, and turned a deaf ear to the stadium commentary that favored the home team, and it can be said that they scoffed at it.

What Swansea continue to keep the pressure on Hull City in the second half will be victorious. Are you a professional football commentator?

Didn't see most of Swansea's players panting when they left the pitch? And the Hull City players have a lot of confidence on their faces?

"In the first half, the weakness showed the strength, tempting the home team to attack, consuming a lot of their physical strength, but they were able to keep a goal without conceding, it seems that the key to victory and defeat is in the second half." Bruce White thought to himself.

"Zhu Zeming's performance today is really good, the defensive coverage is really large, and there are many accurate interceptions on the grab, which shows that his prediction of the route of the ball is too accurate. I think this kid can be selected for the national team, and the two hard games of the national team next month will very much need a defensive player like Zhu Zeming. Liu Yichuan is determined to report to the headquarters that for the sake of Chinese football, he must recommend Zhu Zeming, a very rare intelligent central defender, to the high coach.

Bang Bang Bang ......

"You did a good job today, you did a good job of executing the tactics I arranged." Niu Shuai smiled faintly, and the unprecedented clapping surprised the players and Mike Ferran, only Darko Milovic seemed to have expected it and his face was as usual.

"In the second half, the tactics remained the same, but you are always ready for my signals, I will not be satisfied with a draw, and I believe you too."

Everyone nodded heavily.

yes, who will settle for a draw?

Who doesn't love a win?

Who doesn't want to get a win?

Who doesn't want to be loved by the fans for a good performance?

In fact, it's just who doesn't want to be in the limelight.

"Robin, how long can you hold out? Don't force it, I'll need you next weekend. Niu Shuai looked at Robin van Persie, the arrogant Dutchman is not everyone can call him by name, but Niu Shuai dares, and it sounds so natural, so that after the year of establishment, he is no longer as angry with the head coach as the impulsive hairy boy before, of course, for Niu Shuai, he has only gratitude.

Because when Niu Shuai loaned him, he said that he would not let him reduce his salary, the reason is that the youth of professional players is limited, and he can make more money.

Not long ago, there was sad news in world football, retired Aston Villa star Darian Atkinson was shot in the Champions League with a taser by the police, and was taken to the hospital and passed away.

The name may be unfamiliar, but as a player, Atkinson made 85 league appearances for Aston Villa between 1991 and 1995, scoring 23 goals.

He scored the opening goal in the 1994 Carabao Cup final and helped Aston Villa win the title over Manchester United.

He was also the Premier League Goalscorer of the Season winner and played a solo game against Wimbledon.

is such a player with a glorious history, but ended his life in this embarrassing way, at the age of 48, homeless, and died young. In our opinion, it's unbelievable that these words are concentrated on a former Premier League star.

However, this kind of thing happens every day in England at all levels.

According to a survey by XPro (Association of Retired Players), a British sports charity, 33.3% of British professional footballers will divorce their wives in the first year of retirement, and more than 40% of players will declare bankruptcy within five years of retirement.

That's not a shocking figure, as more than 60 percent of NBA players go bankrupt within five years of retirement, and 78 percent of NFL players go bankrupt.

Sounds outrageous, right? After all, now a League One player can earn 50,000 pounds a year, a Championship player can earn 500,000 pounds a year, and a Premier League player can earn an average of 2 million pounds a year just from his salary. Then, they actually spent all the more than 20 million pounds they had earned in their careers for more than ten years, or nearly 200 million yuan, within five years......

We really don't understand the world of rich people.

However, this huge group of losers is created by the players themselves, as well as a series of factors such as society, economy, and family.

A lot of people because being a player is a very glamorous profession. No, being a player is really not a good profession.

They are different from us ordinary people, our career is to work hard for decades and then get a pension to live a happy life of planting flowers and grass, feeding dogs and birds. If nothing else, income should be rising until retirement.

But the player is different, his most profitable is the more than ten years of playing, and after retiring, his income plummets immediately.

Under the current social security system in the UK, Brits cannot start receiving a minimum pension of £148.4 per week until they are 65 years old.

But most players retire at the age of 35 and will have no income for up to 30 years without any other work.

In other words, the money that a professional player has earned in his glamorous ten years needs to be broken into decades of spending, and he has to account for the endless inflation.

According to the BBC, the real purchasing power of the pound has depreciated by almost 66% in the last 30 years, which means that the £1 million earned in 1986 has remained unchanged and is now worth only a third of what it was in real terms that year.

At the extreme end of the spectrum, England star Tommy Lawton, who played for Everton, Chelsea and Arsenal, scored 22 goals in 23 international games for England in the 50s. At that time, people were full of praise for Lawton's header skills, and some people even rumored that he could levitate in the air when heading, which was basically a football version of Iron Man.

Like the wealthy Iron Man, while playing, Lawton was paid a league cap of more than £20 a week. But 15 years after he retired, £20 was a tiny amount, leading Lawton, who had no other survival skills, to write to his former friend Sir Attenberg to borrow money. Eventually, Lawton died in a downfall, and repeatedly advised his son, Tommy II, to "never be a footballer again".

So, players need to learn how to manage their money.

Unfortunately, according to a lawyer who acts as a financial adviser to Premier League players: "Players rarely answer our financial calls because when they start playing for the first team they feel they have the financial means to pick any sports car. ”

I once read a report that the largest luxury consumer group of traveling abroad is not those ordinary well-off families or rich sons and daughters who have been rich for three generations, but the local tyrants who got rich overnight.

The reason is very simple, from the moonlight clan to suddenly with a lot of money, then you have to buy two things that you didn't want to buy before, one for use, and one for dazzling.

It's a lot like the growth of a player. Raheem Sterling, for example, was paid 20 times as much as his apprenticeship at Liverpool on his first contract; Another example is Marcus Rashford, whose weekly salary was £1,500 in March, and five months later it has become £25,000.

If a player fails to hold back his spending arm at the start of his career, his spending index will rise pathologically.

The initial stage of the disease is to flaunt wealth. West Bromwich Albion defender Liam Ridgewell, for example, once wiped his butt with a stack of £20 bills in his toilet, causing the famous "toilet door" incident.

This behavior is really incomprehensible, one is to expose the butt; the second is to insult the queen on the banknote; third, it has aroused public indignation; Fourth, my mother taught me since I was a child: "Money is dirty, wash your hands after touching it"......

Look, this guy is a textbook for the brain-dead world.

The intermediate stage of the disease is comparison. There was a Premier League player who bought six Harley-Davidson motorcycles, but he couldn't drive them. Because his professional contract forbade him to drive a motorcycle to prevent an accident from affecting his career. But he bought it anyway because "everyone bought one, so I wanted to buy a bunch of ......"

The advanced stage of the disease is to benefit all beings. For example, Villa's former famous star Lee Hendry, who bought his parents, older siblings, seven aunts and eight aunts a big house when he was a player, and then when he retired, he found that he simply did not have the financial resources to continue these mortgages. Unfortunately, when British property crashed, his direct financial losses amounted to £10 million.

The ultimate stage of the disease is extravagance and finally bankruptcy. Class of 92 and winger Keith Gillespie, who later moved to Newcastle, insisted on spending £130,000 on a pub for a long time, and finally went bankrupt due to a gambling loss of £7 million; Former England international David James spent his money in the prime of his time, throwing away shoes and buying new ones if they wore out, and buying new ones if the car was scratched. The end result was clear: he declared bankruptcy a year after retiring from the sport, and then made a living by auctioning off the shirts he had traded for Frank Lampard, Petr Cech and others...... I know why everyone is so keen to change their jerseys, it can save lives at critical moments!

This is the so-called from thrift to luxury, from luxury to frugality, retirement is a watershed for players, before announcing retirement, you still earn 50,000 pounds a week, drink retirement wine and walk out of the door, you may not earn a child. However, the consumption habits that players have developed are difficult to change.

It's like that for the players, and it's also for the players' wives.

In fact, many players have the problem of cheating in marriage, and some were even caught and raped in bed by his daughter-in-law.

But many of these bad things were exposed by ex-wives after the player retired.

Why, because the players have money when they play football, they have enough capital for their daughter-in-law to eat, drink, buy and buy, and visit Dubai twice a year.

If you poke things out in the prime of the player, it will not only be love that will disappear, but also a beautiful life piled up with money.

However, once a player crosses the bottom line, or cuts off the flow of funds, then, who is afraid of who, it is a big deal to divorce and break up.

Moreover, retired players will suddenly spend a lot more time with their wives, which not only increases the chance of conflicts, but also cannot be used as an excuse to avoid training and games.

However, if the divorce process is entered, then these players with a lot of money will be severely cut off a piece of meat in the division of property, and details can be consulted Wang Baobao, who has been wandering in the whirlpool of green and green recently.

There are also a lot of negative teaching materials in the Premier League in this regard.

For example, Ashley Cole's divorce from Cheryl in 2010 caused him to retreat more than a dozen places from the England Player's Fortune List; Another example is the aforementioned James, who had an extramarital affair in 2005, and his wife Tania took away £3 million of her property when she divorced him, and because James was at fault in the divorce, the court also upheld Tania for a share of all James' future income......

Moreover, the daughter-in-law is not the biggest pit, and passers-by are even more crazy in terms of pit money.

Although England players do not stop their basic education in the academy, such as Fosu Mensah and Marcus Rashford also insist on doing their homework in addition to football, and there have been talents like Frank Lampard with an IQ of more than 150, but English players, like Chinese Super League players, also face the problem of low average literacy.

For example, Steven Gerrard's best grade in math in middle school was C, and later he once exposed a photo with his daughter Lily Ella on his social platform, under which he wrote: "I'm doing my daughter's homework!" But the equation of fractions seems to be difficult. "How much is four-fifths equal to fifteenths of that difficult math problem?

As the saying goes, if you read less, don't lie to anyone you deceive.

For example, there is a big fool who is very familiar with the circle of Premier League stars, and recommends a certain management company to many players. said that with the investment of this management company, you can earn more in the second half of your life than in the first half of your life.

As a result, dozens of stars jumped into the pit, and in the end, none of them managed to climb out, and former Arsenal captain Saul Campbell alone lost more than 7 million pounds.

Of course, it's not all the scammer's fault. Even if there are no professional liars involved, many players have the ability to invest in their own investments.

Many players are not without plans for their property, and in order to maintain and appreciate their value, they start to devote themselves to business early before retiring.

However, since football takes up most of their time, running the business has become a side hustle, and there is still the cultural level problem just mentioned. So a lot of times, the results of their investments are not so ideal.

For example, former West Ham United and Australian national team captain Lucas Neal is the background board of "Grosso has made meritorious contributions", and his total income as a player is as high as 40 million Australian dollars, about 200 million yuan. But he is very keen on high-risk investment, what American real estate, British E rent, in the end, all the money was wasted, and he entered bankruptcy liquidation just after retiring.

Others went bankrupt before they could retire, such as former Tottenham goalkeeper Brad Friedel and former Liverpool defender John Reese.

Friedel invested in a soccer school, but the budget was seriously overrun, and the school went bankrupt before it could be built; And Reese was also declared bankrupt by the local court in Liverpool in 2007 because he could not pay 100,000 pounds, and he was still receiving a weekly salary of 50,000 pounds at that time...... What the hell is this mess about.

Therefore, when it comes to investing, you still have to pick up areas that you are more familiar with.

For example, Cristiano Ronaldo, he not only took on all kinds of advertisements, from Modelo Airlines, BES Bank to Qingyang shampoo, but also created the CR7 clothing brand and personally advertised his company's underwear.

When it comes to showing off his figure, Ronaldo is not targeting anyone, so success is a matter of course.

But once out of his own enchantment, Ronaldo can't play.

For example, he once invested in a social software Mobbito, which is said to be particularly powerful, equivalent to the Portuguese version of 58.com + Dianping + Meituan, and then, there was no more.

Also investing in the IT industry is Gerard Pique, who in 2012 invested in a video-sharing app called Viddy, which at the time of the investment claimed to surpass Instagram. As a result, two years later, the entire company changed hands for more than $10 million, and even 30% of the original financing was not returned.

If according to the normal way of thinking, if a football player retires, then their most direct option should be to become a football coach, after all, this is their profession.

But in fact, compared to the endless number of player-type coaches in the Netherlands, Argentina and Italy, England is simply a desert of coaches.

Passing England's coaching exams is a long and daunting task, and being a coach in a country bombarded by the media is particularly stressful.

Therefore, many players with coaching qualifications have chosen to become commentators, because the money comes faster, the pressure is less, and the work is more stable.

Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher, Alan Shearer, Paul Schole...... If you turn on the TV, you can still see them today.

And some newcomers to the commentary, when they are excited, they will appear in a state of "I can do it".

In addition, the only way out after the player's retirement is to continue to tap his potential.

Here are just a few examples of success.

First, rely on your face.

In the 2015 Forbes list of retired athletes' earnings, David Beckham ranked second with an annual income of £45 million, which is more than the annual income of current stars such as Leo Messi, Gareth Bale and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

What's even more shocking is that Beckham retired in 2013 with an annual income of only £25 million, but after retiring, he has a stronger ability to attract money.

On the one hand, he relies on his "heartthrob" face and a handsome son, so that he has continuous advertising income; On the other hand, he and Victoria do have a set of business investments.

Moreover, Xiaobei is also very righteous. Before he retired, he was approached by a Dubai Palm real estate company offering him a free villa in exchange for David Beckham's endorsement. Later, Xiaobei agreed, but on the condition that the company would provide each of his national team teammates with a villa at cost price, which cost about £600,000. The deal was eventually struck and the villas are now worth between £5 million and £7 million each...... Making friends is really important.

Second, rely on fame.

Many stars have already made meritorious contributions in the original club, so they have chosen to enter the club's upper echelons, such as Zinedine Zidane and Pavel Nedved; There are also stars whose influence in their home countries goes far beyond football itself, so why not go into politics if your approval ratings can soar without canvassing?

For example, Kaha Karadze, a former AC Milan defender and now Georgia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy; Andrei Shevchenko, a former AC Milan striker who later became president of the National Pension Fund of Ukraine.

AC Milan, a club that can take you from HHTV5 to HHTV1.

Third, rely on muscles.

For example, devoting himself to the film industry.

French star Eric Cantona has starred in 22 films; and Winnie Jones, the former Watford star who was on the list of England's top 10 villains when he played football, and simply used his talent to start his true performance after retiring, and has played well in movies and TV series such as "Two Smoking Guns" and "Green Arrow".

In addition, there are many players who have chosen to devote themselves to another sporting life based on their physical fitness, such as Turkish star Ilhan opting for figure skating; Former German international Tim Wiese is now a member of the World Wrestling Entertainment League.

Fourth, rely on investment.

Michael Owen, for example, invested in a horse farm after retiring from football, and his horse "Brown Jaguar" won the sprint race at the Dubai Horse Racing World Cup, earning him a generous prize of £384,000.

There is also Mathieu Flamini, known as "President Flamini", who founded an energy company called GF with a friend in 2008. GF, the gospel of many single dogs, this name alone is also popular! Sure enough, GF is really red. Flamini's company has reportedly developed a gasoline alternative to petroleum, which could be in demand for up to £20 billion in the future. As long as you get a scoop out of the £20 billion market, it will take years to sit on the ground. Therefore, "President F. Fur" is now playing in Hull City not for money, but for health.

Do you think that the road is still very wide after the player retires?

Again, the answer is no. Because the vast majority of players don't have the hardware to do so, and even the success stories we've listed above are mostly soy sauce roles in the industry they do today.

Cantona, in fact, is 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 (XPro), only 3% of English professional players continue to make a glamorous life after retirement, and only 5% of players can continue to make a living from football (coaching, commentators).

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, 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 mountain in a long retirement career.

Former Leeds striker Brian Dean, who scored his first goal in the Premier League, 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 Webber has 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 his shoes.

And now, Webb is a postman.

There are also former Bayern striker Jürgen Wegmann, who works as a painter, and López, a former Chilean national team player who works as 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 the days when I was playing, I was always afraid of the present and the future, I was afraid of not playing, I was afraid of not playing well, 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.

Paul Gascoigne's sister once accused a reporter from The Sun, saying that in order to take pictures of Gascoigne's alcoholism, the reporter took the initiative to buy alcohol and put it on Gascoigne's doorstep, and then sat and waited for him to be 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, the Argentine god of war Gabriel Batistuta has basically removed all the cartilage in his ankle due to multiple surgeries, and the two bones collide directly when walking, which is 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.

Finally, let's revisit some data:

1/3 of English professional footballers divorced within a year of retirement, 2/5 went bankrupt within five years of retirement, 4/5 suffered from osteoarthritis after retirement, and more than 150 former professional footballers are serving prison sentences, mostly drug-related......

In Harry Potter, Headmaster Dumbledore once said to Harry: "What kind of person we become is not our ability, but our choice." ”

For many players, this is a reminder to plan early in their careers and not to fall into eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling and drugs at their prime age.

Because, when it comes to retirement, they don't have much choice.

Therefore, in our football land of China, which is several dimensions barren than England, those children who have a football dream or use football dreams to escape from learning, are you really ready for this kind of life......

(PS: The author Jun Shui has such a large paragraph to reveal the real professional football world to the majority of fans.) No matter what industry, the glamorous ones are always a very small number of strong people, and more are ordinary and conscientious ordinary people, sometimes, hobbies can not be eaten, and dreams are reflected in reality, which is cruel. So, when everyone chooses their own path, stop and look more. ）

Van Persillo pondered for a moment and said, "It should be possible to hold on for 20, no, 15 minutes." ”

Niu Shuai said: "Everyone didn't consume too much physical strength in the first half, so we can continue to maintain this tactic in the second half." The time for change is to change. ”

Niu Shuai glanced at everyone, looked at Bastian Schweinsteiger and Zhu Zeming, and said: "After the substitution, the back line immediately pressed forward, the rhythm of the midfield increased, strengthened pressing and running, and after grabbing the ball, handed the ball to Bastian or Xiao Zhu, and they launched a quick counterattack." Bastian, Xiao Zhu, remember, wear the air, pass the ball in advance, after scoring, retreat to the half, continue to play defensive counterattack, remember. ”

"Remember, chief!" The players shouted loudly.

The fighting spirit is good, and the biggest change when the leaders come to the team is their mental outlook. Phelan thought.