Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

How my pro football dream ended.

Name: How my pro football dream ended.
Uploaded: 2025-06-24T17:34:37+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this first‑person monologue, the speaker recounts being promised a three‑year professional football contract at age 24, with his father acting as his…

24 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this first‑person monologue, the speaker recounts being promised a three‑year professional football contract at age 24, with his father acting as his agent. He describes signing a lease for an apartment near Bury and repeatedly seeking reassurance from the team manager (the "gaffer"). Mid‑season, the club announces severe financial problems and withdraws the contract, leaving the speaker devastated. He returns home to his parents and spends days crying, emphasizing the emotional toll of the broken promise.

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I got promised a pro contract, went into the office as you do, spoke to my dad, the agent, outside. I'm like, we've got a 3-year contract here. I was like 24 at the time, and I put pen to paper on an apartment just outside of Bury. And then I found myself not getting back into the team. So I kept going to the gaffer at the time, you know, I'm still getting a contract. Yeah, yeah, no problem. And came to the latter part of the season, we just got the biggest Well, I did the biggest kick in the teeth in life. Like, the contract isn't there. We've, you know, we're in money troubles and we can't offer it to you. At the time, it was crushing. And I just remember going home to my dad and my mum in the house and I was just crying my eyes out for like days. It.