华尔街中级英语Lesson 39（在线收听）

 What sort of training does a professional footballer undergo during a typical week?  If you are playing a top club, then the training is going to be very intense.  The manager or the coach will have observe the other team, come back with lots of notes and there will be lots of little plans about how to counter that man this man.  Their long ball approach in another words, technique, tactics and that’s what the whole thing will be about.  Looking at the players for a moment.  They seems to start very, very young.  They become professional almost when they’ve left school, don't they?  They do, in fact, yes.  And most clubs would tell you that the young players are the most important players because they are the future of the game.  The potential is there.  And so if you could get them the age of thirteen, fourteen or fifteen, then you could move them into the game you want to play.  Whether  it is the game they want to play it’s doesn’t matter.  Because again I’m go back to the point that winning is all important and so much of that creative flare that you could saw in the early days that you saw in forties and fifties has gone.  and I think that’s very sad, indeed. 
     What does a footballer do when he retires?  Because they retire very young, maybe before there are 30 years old.  In the past, many of them chose to stay in the game, perhaps on the training side, coaching side.  There are courses that they can go on.  That is not quite so true today.  Largely because of the nature of the game.  And also because I think players see the way the game is going and decide” no. there is no way”  that I want to be part of management in football today.  I wouldn’t want to be a manager.  And they often point out their own manager.  Jokingly saying:” I wouldn’t want to be like him and  have has problems”  so many of them leave the game.  And many of them end up running pubs. That’s a popular in past time for footballers running the pubs.  And also many of them use their sporting ability and work for sports organizations, selling shoes or sporting equipment or associating with golf clubs and things like that.  Many of them try to stay with sports, but not necessarily football.