She has never fully explained the reason.
Playing football can be lucrative, but the same goes to start one of the biggest podcasts in the world. Alex Cooper followed this second path when she launched Calls his daddywhich has become a real phenomenon. When she was at university, however, Alex played football from division I.
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Obviously, she has left football largely in her past, but many fans want to know why she has decided to stop playing sports. This story is relatively complicated, but here is what we know.
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Why did Alex Cooper leave football?
There are a number of factors that could have played a role in Alex’s decision. Even many division I football players discover that they are not talented enough to make it a professional, and although women’s football is ascending, it is not the kind of sport that makes you tons and tons of money. It is therefore possible that Alex has just realized that she had reached the ceiling of her capacities with university sport.
In an interview CosmopolitanHowever, Alex explained that his college experience had also been traumatic. Alex did not go into details, but said that she had crossed something with his college coach.
“With this specific thing, it is so personal for me and it had such a consequence on my mental health,” she explained. “Recently, I reconnected with a lot of people with whom I played football that was happening when things happened, and it was quite cathartic.”
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“I met one of my teammates in Santa Monica that I had not seen since we got my diploma-we didn’t even say hello, we just started to cry. There is another woman who lived it with me, and we finally saw each other recently and it is just wild to talk about it together,” she continued. She also said that some of the other women’s women had the same “scars” they had made and said she would end up talking about it on the podcast.
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“I will certainly discuss it on the podcast. I don’t know when,” she said. “This only subject is just in a drawer in my brain, and it is slightly open now and I know that is there, but I will not force myself to go there until I am like” very well, I am really ready. “” “.
She added, however, that she would not discuss the subject in question through a purely personal lens.
“It will not only be what happened to me-it will be a question of rallying other women together,” she said. Alex left the team before the start of her last year, but she did not say for sure if what had happened to her was the reason. It seems likely, however, that she felt that she could no longer be with this coach, for any reason.
We may not know exactly what happened to Alex, but what seems clear is that she left the team because of his coach. I hope that one day, she can speak in more detail why.
