Life skills good for football players


Lazarus Sauti

Professional football, without an iota of doubt, is now a billion dollar industry and football players should get a piece of the big cake.

Soccer players should come home on retirement and invest their money wisely.

To do this, they should be taught the importance of life skills.

Former Zimbabwe national team player Elasto Kapowezha believes life skills help soccer players’ deal with distractions to their careers.

“I teach the Wits (South African premier league team) senior and junior teams life skills, which are mainly based in the teachings of the Bible.

“The aim is to build role models from our soccer players and also to help them deal with challenges that most soccer players face like unprotected sex, alcohol abuse and financial mismanagement,” said Kapowezha.

Premiership teams in Africa should teach their players life skills in order to mentor them on what to do with the little they gain from the game.

Zimbabwe’s veteran sports writer, Fanuel Viriri once said: “Professional football is easier than coal mining, but it is not without strain.

“Every boy plays football, but the numbers that make a career from it are tiny. The select few must have ability and dedication, but also the mental resolve to be able to withstand almost constant public judgment.

“They may slide to alcoholism and drug abuse. Premiership teams should have a ‘what to do with your money earned list’ for the players from the day they sign their first professional contract.

“Clubs should mentor their players on what to do with the huge transfer fees …”

The plans of prioritising life skills should be to help football players’ deal with distractions to their careers following the realisation that most soccer players struggle to cope with fame and new found fortune.

Some football players are not mentally prepared for the world of professional football.

Instead of putting their monies in to good use, they plunder it like the Biblical prodigal son.

To effectively help them, clubs should teach their players professional football etiquette and simple things on how to handle oneself in public.

 

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