khorne
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So why did he continue? Do factory workers love their jobs? He should stop and think when giving interviews as those are meant for fans, average guys who have day jobs and fight to put food on the table, not his therapist.
Of course you can feel sad. But he's complaining a bit too much/acting as a victim and sounds removed from reality.
If you get that vibe than you should read the entire interview from the link that flavia has posted, or better yet, watch the whole thing on youtube if you can understand some spanish, because hearing VV talk for 45 minutes leaves a different impression than 4 translated sentences taken out of context.
He's not complaining/presenting himself as a victim at all, he just gives a very honest and open reflection of his sporting career, with the conclusion that there where good and bad parts, but ultimately he wouldn't choose that path again. One of the reasons, incidentally, being that he thinks football players are too disconnected from real life and that he couldn't go back to state of mind after he lived like a normal guy during his recovery. I think it was a very rare gem and a fantastic interview from a football player compared to all the cookie cutter garbage like "it was always my childhood dream to play for club x" that we get from other players.
Also, the whole fallacy of relative privation is getting annoying. If he didn't enjoy the professional football player life, for whatever reasons, than he is as entitled as your vaunted factory worker to say so if someone asks his honest opinion, especially when he has stated several times that it was more outside pressure than his own choice to become one.