Playing football consistently is something that will keep you disciplined and grounded if you stick with it. However, that can be taken away when you pick up an injury. Last August, I severely broke my ankle playing football which prevented me from playing for the rest of the season. It happened when someone on the opposite team put in a late challenge from behind that caught my ankle on the way in. It was something similar to Eduardo da Silva's ankle break that he picked up playing for Arsenal back in 2008 (if you know, you know). I had to get a pretty big surgery done to realign everything and doctors told me it would be at least 12-18 months before I'd see a football pitch again. That's the best-case scenario with physiotherapy doing its thing. When all this happened I was devastated. I still am. Being away from the pitch and the rest of my teammates is a very lonely place, especially given the progress I was making on the pitch. To this I would say, Don't take football for granted. It can all be taken away from you in an instant. And if you do unfortunately manage to get your injury yourself. Make sure you do everything in your power to get back to the pitch. Physiotherapy. Supplementation. Dietary. Other forms of exercise. And study what you can from the game. When you pick up any injury, it's so easy to fall down the rabbit hole of bad habits simply because you are not in that disciplined environment anymore. And that's coming from my personal experience. Crap food, not exercising, alcohol, drugs, fap, you name it. All it does is make things worse. Ten times worse. It's up to you to create that disciplined environment for yourself. Join communities like this one. You're not alone in the process. You've got this!

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