💬 Danny Donachie worked as a performance coach for Aston Villa and Everton – he speaks to iPaperSport
“Another player mentioned it to me,” he said. “Success in our society is seen as money, wealth and fame. Footballers have all of that. They’re in this space where it appears they have everything and quite often they feel unhappy, they feel depressed, they feel stress.
“It reminds me of what Varane said. He was saying he’d lost his individual identity. His whole identity is being a footballer so he’d lost the balance between the two.” “I work with a lot of players who deliberately aren’t on social media but there’s no way of avoiding it. There’s one player I know who felt he did well in a game, didn’t even look at social media and then one of his friends phoned and said, ‘Have you seen what they’re saying about you on social media?’ and it sent him into a spin.”
As a consequence, he sees players seeking support beyond the dressing room. “They create these entourages to be able to give them that support they’re missing from the team itself.”
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