Scroll through his, or his club's, social media and there will always be small snippets with him talking about how important it is. "I have a life outside football which is really getting hammered."įootballers' mental health is a topic quite close to Gurpreet's heart. It's why he is comfortable saying that being in a bio-bubble is "really, really taxing mentally" for him.
He just feels it's important to note that even when you are happy, even when things are going well, it's okay to feel down, to miss something, to want more. This is not to say he doesn't appreciate what the league is doing for the players' safety or that he doesn't realise his good fortune in being able to do what he loves for a job. "It is a small room and every other second I see my gloves and my boots hanging there on the balcony and that makes me think of it again and again." If you are walking past someone's room, you remember this is your teammate here and that a match is going to happen soon." Even when he does manage to focus his thoughts elsewhere, once in his room, it's immediately brought back. "It is so difficult to take that mental break." The more you try, the harder it becomes, he says, because "then you think about the reason you are here. In the sanitised, insular world of the bio-bubble, this is fantasy. I'd be cycling back and be like " yaar, pyaaz hi nahi hain ghar pe.' And I'll just go buy some! That was my way to disconnect from it, that was the beauty of being outside." vacuuming my apartment, cleaning my kitchen, things like that made me not think about football all the time." Mine was to live a normal life, doing normal chores. Every single person has different ways of coping with things. "In a normal footballing environment you train, you go your separate ways, you and you spend your time with your family, friends. It may sound silly, but after spending one and a half ISL seasons and one AFC Cup group stage in secure bio-bubbles across the past year, all India's best goalkeeper wants to do is live a "normal" life. What Gurpreet Singh Sandhu really misses doing is buying onions.
Ghaly said the state will work with the NFL on safety protocols ahead of the big game.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser Mark Ghaly also doubled down on NFL's stance, vowing to keep the game in Southern California. "As part of our standard contingency planning process that we conduct for all regular and postseason games, we have contacted several clubs to inquire about stadium availability in the event we cannot play the Super Bowl as scheduled due to weather-related issues or unforeseen circumstances.Ĭalifornia Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. 13," an NFL spokesperson said in a statement. "We plan on playing Super Bowl 56 as scheduled at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb.
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