“I could have made a living from it professionally”: the reason why Matt Pokora did not continue his football career

Before becoming a singer, Matt Pokora imagined himself becoming a footballer. “I could have made a living from it professionally”, he confided in an interview with Pierre Ménès, telling what had “disgusted” of the round ball.

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He could have had a whole different fate. Before becoming a singer, Matt Pokora imagined himself as a footballer. “I can’t tell you if I would have played in D1 or D2. But I could have made a professional living from football”, he explained in an interview with Pierre Ménès for his site Pierrot Football Club.

And to add: “In any case, I had the mental level. We know how important today in high level sport the mental is. You have to have the feet of Messi or Ben Arfa, it’s not the same destiny waiting for you if you don’t have the right entourage. I think I had what it takes, I was balanced in my head and I was aware of what had to be done as sacrifices.”

Matt Pokora “disgusted for five or six months with football”

Matt Pokora started feeling the round ball at the age of 8, certainly pushed by his father André Tota, a professional footballer. And in 2002, he made a test in a professional club, Sedan. Unsuccessful attempt… “We were about fifteen young people from all over France to come and try out over a weekend. It’s going very well. All the technical games, I had no problem. And on the last day, we did a test match. We find ourselves, us under fifteen, playing against the national under-seventeen of Sedan! At that age, two years apart, it’s huge. it’s young men versus teens. “

In addition, Matt Pokora did not play in the right position. “I was a right winger and the coach who recruited for his team the following year saw a youngster who was playing in Lens and who was playing right winger. So they put me on the right side, to defend against a youngster. coming out of Clairefontaine, who was playing with the France Under-Seventeen team, for sixty minutes. Then they said to me: “Go ahead.” But I ran out of juice in my legs to tell the difference suddenly, it went wrong“, he explained. An experience that has him “disgusted for five or six months with football”. Long enough for him to think of another career …

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