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all i’ve wanted to do is become a
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professional footballer so
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i don’t want to see it like a job
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because it’s something i love doing
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every day
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people say it’s not a real job or
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something like that
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i kind of get it because for me it
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doesn’t feel like a job right this is
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the day in alliance for the professional
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thumbnail
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versus a professional gamer
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i usually wake up at like 9 9 30. so i
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wake up at
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eight o’clock normally every morning
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same way you can’t plus lose my alarm
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for about half an hour
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i shower brush my teeth i get into the
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club at quarter tonight and have
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breakfast
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eat my breakfast it’s just a short meal
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i guess to get me through
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to lunch i’m very much scrambled egg and
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baked beans on toast with
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a chicken breast which is quite
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controversial a lot of lads are like
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chicken for breakfast but for me it’s
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important to get the protein in and if
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you can get it in as early as possible
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then brilliant
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walk to the office have my coffee there
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and
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start preparing for our practice for the
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day
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you don’t spend loads of time on the
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training pitch but it’s important when
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you are out there that you get good
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quality working
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and you get what what you put into it
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ultimately
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good good i mean we have physiotherapy
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because i think it’s normal for
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people who sit uh most of the day like
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maybe have bad posture and
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breathing wrists and back pain i like
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the most common
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uh injuries for like pro gamers
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knee injuries are quite common in
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football sort of muscle muscle strains
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i didn’t actually realize the importance
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of it until i
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had my first knee injury for me at 23
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years old it’s really important that in
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10 years time i’m still able to play at
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a good level because
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i’ve looked after my body yeah it’s
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really important that we
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you know figure those problems out to
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prevent injuries
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team meetings we have kind of every day
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we go through like
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stuff we did yesterday this is actually
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so smart because everyone is like
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how is he allowed to do this yeah yeah
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training routine normally is very much
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sort of teammates
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doing a lot of sort of patterns of play
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build not from the back work on set
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pieces
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which is a big part of the game and yeah
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we thought through that most things
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well usually we have like five practice
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games a day
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or scrims as we call them wait can we go
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on them on the right here
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guys i’m six i’m six
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during the season it’s really hard hours
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human we play and we practice a lot of
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hours in the day there’s not much free
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time
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you know you finish the game we go to
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the
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review room and we have the game on the
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television there and then the
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as the players and the culture you know
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we talk about the game you know we learn
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about our mistakes and
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just go through the game like what we
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should have done at this at that point
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all of our training sessions get filmed
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every day if we see someone training
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which we thought
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oh i should have done better at this
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moment it’s always good to reflect and
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yeah a lot of the time the gaffer will
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sort of
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pour you in his office and sort of go
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through some clips from training and
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what could have done better
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what what you want to see more of we
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spend most of our time together like in
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the office right they’re like practicing
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and working we’re still friends right
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but we’re
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teammates so we have a good connection i
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guess and spend time with each other
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it’s quite nice really each we’re all
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sorted together you’re having lunch
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together you’ve
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trained in the morning so um yeah it’s
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quite a good place to be ready
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of course we do stretching once in a
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while but it’s not that much you know i
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think after like two or three games we
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usually have like a
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five-minute break where we like go get
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some fresh air of course after every
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game
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dinner is served by the chef and then
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yeah he prepares meals for every one of
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us
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we don’t eat pizza every day you know
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burgers because like it
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makes us feel slow right so it’s not
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that we are like eating
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grass or something like that right we’re
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not like athletes right we don’t have to
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eat like
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super healthy but we also should uh
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watch what we eat as well right
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it’s just like any other job when you
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sort of come up you want to relax you
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want to
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sort of take your mind off where me and
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my girlfriend have recently got a puppy
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which
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loved the door and we take her out for
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walks pretty much most days down the
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beach
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it’s just important that mentally you
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stay fresh every footballer’s got
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different ways of doing that and mine
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take the dog out for a walk and just
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chill out and watch tv really
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and i usually go to bed at like around
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11
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or 12 and then before that
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i do my night routine i guess get ready
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for bed
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we have uh something called an ordering
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which tracks
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our sleep so you kind of know like how
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your sleep was
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i try to get like at least eight hours
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of sleep if i get
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eight hours of sleep or like the ring
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will say 80 sleeps forward and i’ll be
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happy about that
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footballers need to be really
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appreciative that are made and that time
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consuming
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compared to a lot of jobs which are sort
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of nine to five and that’s why we do
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we are in a privileged position and
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that’s why i’m so grateful every day to
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be in this position
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these players have access to ridiculous
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money 1.5 million dollars for a year
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contract
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xl are absolutely the underdogs these
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guys are professional athletes but their
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arena is a mouse and a keyboard
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