"When I stopped being a football player, it's true that politics didn't even enter my head, " Romario conceded.

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In American football the clock stops when a player appears hurt, helping the team that is trailing or one that wants to swap in new players.

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Martinez's ambitions represent a seismic shift from when he arrived as a player at a club languishing in the fourth-tier of English football 14 years ago.

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He hasn't spent so much money in the five years he's here and we're always challenging him, playing some great football and he knows a good player when he sees one.

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Now second-tier football schools can be financially competitive when recruiting a high school player and can remind him that if he goes to a bigger school he may spend a lot of time on the bench.

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Football clubs are experts when it comes to keeping a player in peak physical condition, but Pericard is convinced the game has room for improvement when it comes to addressing issues of mental well-being.

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Now second-tier football schools can be financially competitive when recruiting a high school player and can remind him that if he goes to a bigger school he may spend a lot of time on the bench.

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And when we find out after the fact that a bike racer or a football player has betrayed our trust, it makes us feel like chumps.

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It escalated when the teen, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound high school football and basketball player, wrestled the 5-foot-6 Drayton into a head lock in the kitchen.

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