Every top professional footballer earns enough money in his career as he wants at least 200 years. It is a fact that the prevailing opinion is that every football player has a nice and comfortable life after ending his career.

However, all the players live in a different way in the retirement days. There are those who make a joke to the end of their lives, but there are those who do not have anything to do after they leave the green field.

One of those players is also the legendary Liverpool player, Danny Murphy, who played 243 games in the "red" jersey and stayed at Anfield from 1997 to 2004

I think the word horror is too sweet to describe that situation. I lived quite normally, but in the next moment I would have hit me in the head and would have thought that I was no longer a football player. You have the feeling that somebody has taken something from you, but there is no way to get it back. Imagine living for more than 20 years in strictly controlled conditions, where nobody tells you what to wear, where to go and what to do. Someone else does it for you, and you are focused only on the football game.


I do not want anyone to get the impression that I'm exaggerating, but the soccer game was with me from my 16th year and it's still with me. Everything else was in the background, even the family and my marriage. It's not about the money you will earn, it's about feelings. You are full of self-confidence, people love you, you compete every day, every day you try to be as good as possible. You take it all for granted, until you realize that it's gone, "Murphy said.