Hello everyone, this is my first attempt at a story, I hope you will enjoy it. I have been browsing the forums for a while now and have finally decided to join up and join the community. I normally enjoy the stories where the player builds up a reputation in Europe before moving to a bigger team so that is the road I will be taking. Please feel free to leave advice on how to make my story and presentation better. Also, I didn't want to use my real name so I just chose a random name and my imagination came up with John Smith (took me a while to think up as you can tell lol). So here it goes...
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One Year on
The day has come. One year exactly since I completed my coaching courses and got my badges. I thought that was the hard part over, teams would come calling, but it has proved alot more difficult as I sit here still jobless after 365 days. Now into March 2012 and I have been rejected for two jobs already this month. Then the post came through the letterbox, I took a look at the floor and the normal rubbish sat there, 'cash for gold' being at the top of the pile. I picked it up and sifted through and right at the bottom was a handwritten envelope but the handwriting I did not recognise. I proceded to open it up and it was from an old friend I used to play football with. We both played for a semi-professional club but neither of our careers took off from there. I read through...
"I hear you have completed your badges, you took your time. No luck with a job then? It's a tough market out there. I am writing because as you know I am also coaching, at the moment I am on a great coaching course out in Norway. Anyway, a space has opened up and I was hoping you would join me out here. It's a great course and managers and chairman from the Norwegian Premier League are constantly arriving and watching us coach. This could be our chance. Let me know..."
It sounded like a great opportunity but managing abroad. I wasn't too sure, I always had my heart set on managing in England, I love it here. But staying here is getting me nowhere. I decided then and there, on the spot, I need to take a risk, I'm going to Norway!
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I will try to do an update a bit later on, I hope you enjoyed this one. Please feel free to leave some suggestions if you think you can help me, cheers!
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One Year on
The day has come. One year exactly since I completed my coaching courses and got my badges. I thought that was the hard part over, teams would come calling, but it has proved alot more difficult as I sit here still jobless after 365 days. Now into March 2012 and I have been rejected for two jobs already this month. Then the post came through the letterbox, I took a look at the floor and the normal rubbish sat there, 'cash for gold' being at the top of the pile. I picked it up and sifted through and right at the bottom was a handwritten envelope but the handwriting I did not recognise. I proceded to open it up and it was from an old friend I used to play football with. We both played for a semi-professional club but neither of our careers took off from there. I read through...
"I hear you have completed your badges, you took your time. No luck with a job then? It's a tough market out there. I am writing because as you know I am also coaching, at the moment I am on a great coaching course out in Norway. Anyway, a space has opened up and I was hoping you would join me out here. It's a great course and managers and chairman from the Norwegian Premier League are constantly arriving and watching us coach. This could be our chance. Let me know..."
It sounded like a great opportunity but managing abroad. I wasn't too sure, I always had my heart set on managing in England, I love it here. But staying here is getting me nowhere. I decided then and there, on the spot, I need to take a risk, I'm going to Norway!
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I will try to do an update a bit later on, I hope you enjoyed this one. Please feel free to leave some suggestions if you think you can help me, cheers!
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