Whether in football or the world off the football pitch, the line between depression and psychological problems is blurred. Previously, at Manchester United, Sancho was exposed to excessive psychological pressure, so Ten Hag also sent a team to Sancho to solve the psychological problems of England's talent. As a result, the two broke up publicly in the locker room because of the quality of their training - but Rao is so, Sancho is still identified as psychologically traumatized, not the depression that we are more exposed to on a daily basis.
At the same time that Ten Hag was making a fuss at Old Trafford, Nice player Becca threatened to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge on the highway, and after being successfully rescued, Becca's psychological condition was also picked up: although he was openly trapped by love, Becca's depression had been going on for several weeks before attempting suicide, and behind this public affair was the player's increasingly serious psychological problems.
Such an event occurred in football, and you can't say that the clubs are not well prepared: since the suicide of German goalkeeper Enke in 2009, each team has successively formed its own mental health department, and at the same time, because of the popularization of depression-related content, there has been a lot less discrimination against depressed people - take Beka's depression this time, teammates expressed support at the training ground for the first time, and the club had previously tracked Beka's psychological condition. The club also expressed its support for the players at the first time, and did everything that should not be done.
As with all kinds of injuries, the psychological problems of players have become a major problem for teams. In 2020, FIFPro surveyed 1,602 athletes from 16 countries and regions and found that 22% of 468 female athletes had symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of depression, and 13% of 1,134 male athletes experienced symptoms. Eighteen percent of female athletes and 16 percent of male athletes had symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.
More deadly, as in the adult world, symptoms of anxiety and depression have spread to the youth system. In Manchester United's Carrington base documentary, many young players have not experienced the baptism of professional football, they have been accompanied by insomnia and anxiety, and many people have not entered the professional football system in the future, these unstable factors have not left them, but have become part of their future lives.
In response to various situations, clubs and FIFA are helping players decompress in their own way, but they can't prevent all kinds of causes. Gianluigi Buffon will be depressed because he did not win the title, Jesse Lingard is dragged down by his mother's illness and the pressure to care for his younger siblings, because of the death of his son and the performance at Manchester United is not as expected, Ronaldo even contacted Jordan Peterson, a well-known sports psychologist, in private, however, even after two hours of conversation, the Portuguese has not returned to a healthy level of psychological conditions.
Talking about Enke, who has committed suicide, Vidal can also make jokes about "I scored my first goal in the Bundesliga, and the goalkeeper actually committed suicide two years later", everything indicates that depression is a scary enough enemy, both inside and outside the football field, we are the favorite prey of depression, but when no one notices, we will also become the biggest accomplices of depression.