Mental Health in Football: The Pressure on Young Footballers in the Limelight

Throughout global football, the emergence of young talent is often met with excitement, optimism, and, at times, unrealistic expectations.    One such example that highlights this perfectly is that of Freddy Adu, once dubbed ‘the next Pelé’.   Freddy Adu’s rise to fame was meteoric. Born in Ghana in 1989, Adu moved to the UnitedContinue reading “Mental Health in Football: The Pressure on Young Footballers in the Limelight”