Bodi Brusselers forced to end his football career. The 22-year-old from Brabant played for NAC Breda in Helmond Sports and later moved to Greece and Cyprus, but played his last unofficial game on behalf of Team VVCS.
Brusselers had hoped to find a new club, despite the knee problems with which he had been playing for months. “Three months ago I thought: if it stays like this, I’ll stop. But still I went back on the painkillers, out of love for the game,” says the 22-year-old midfielder, until recently a player of the Cypriot THOI Lakatamias. BN DeStem. “Now I don’t want to do that anymore. Soon I’ll break my knees. I don’t want to do that to my body.”
His football dream has been shattered. “Playing football, seeing the world and earning my money. I was able to do that in Cyprus last year. That had been the approach for the rest of my career: to experience beautiful adventures. But that is not going to happen.” Brussels residents, in possession of a VWO diploma, are already making new plans. “On the one hand, I’m thinking of studying Psychology. On the other hand, I think it’s very cool to start working for the Ministry of Defense, just like my brother. Ultimately as a fighter jet or Apache pilot. I still have to get there. think carefully about.”
Brusselers eventually has 31 Kitchen Champion Division– and two Eredivisie matches to his name. By the way, in 2017 he was for a remarkable reason in the spotlight: the then NAC player, with a rating of 56, was the least Eredivisie player in the popular game FIFA18.
