It has been a roller coaster 12 years or so of professional sport that has left me with a whole lot of memories, experiences, vivid recollections of amazing games, the highs and lows, the fans. Sometimes I miss that mad life and also the friends I met on the way.
The professional team environment is a strange seperated world. We come together in pre-season, we learn, we bond, we fight, we sweat, we become friends and then almost brothers going to 'war' against our opponents every weekend. We train every day sometimes 2 or 3 times a day, we become ultra fit without knowing it. All of this together as a unit striving for that common goal. Our lives are dedicated to doing whatever we can to be better than the next team.
There are so many stories and experiences that you look back on, good, great, bad and horrible, with so many different teams where you and your teammates become a close nit unit that see more of each other than your immediate family. Unfortunately I can only say among those dozens of players you become so close to, I keep in touch with a handfull. A small handfull at that. Its a shame but as you move onto other teams and develope bonds with the next team you put all your energy into, you lose that friendship you held for those amazing and life changing times.
Why is staying connected in an ever increasingly connected world sometimes so hard?
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