I'm going to tell you a story that I was told about Harry Kane that completely changed my footballing career.

I'm going to tell you a story that I was told about Harry Kane that completely changed my footballing career. It was told to me by a man that played alongside him. See, when I was in my first year at university, I was playing in the sixth team, the lowest one there was. But around this time, I'd actually lied to get into a private group coaching session. It was for step five players and above, but I wasn't playing at that level at the time, so I just lied and said I was. Anyway, when I arrived, there was a guy there called Liam Moore. If you don't know him, he played for Leicester City. I think he captained them when they won the championship. Played for a ton of clubs, top pros, serious career. But after this training session, we all went for coffee and he started telling stories about his time at Leicester. Now, most of the stories were about Jamie Vardy because obviously he was a bit of a character, but he mentioned Harry Kane. When Harry arrived at Leicester, nobody really rated him. Not that they thought he was terrible, it was just that he couldn't get into the team and when he was in the squad, he couldn't really get off the bench and affect the game. Showed nothing special in training. He said there was plenty of strikers that were better than him in that Leicester squad and everyone really had the same opinion. And these were championship level players, players that played alongside him every single day. But then Liam said one thing that I've never forgotten. He said the only thing that he really remembers about Harry Kane, that after every single training session when everyone else had gone home, Kane stayed. He said he'd just take a bag of balls, left foot, right foot, side net ends, over and over, just focusing on the small details. And he would do this every single day. While everyone else thought he was bang average, he was just working. And I'm sat there in this coffee shop in my first year at uni, thinking about quitting football, playing for the sixth team, the lowest level I'd ever played really, thinking I was going backwards in my career, thinking that maybe I just wasn't good enough, that all the sacrifices were pretty pointless. I should have listened to everyone, you know? And Liam had just told me that Harry Kane, potential Ballon d'Or winner, World Cup top goalscorer, one of the best strikers that this country's ever seen, was considered bang average in the championship. It made me think that if he could go from average in the championship to one of the best strikers the world's ever seen, why can't I go from the uni sixth team to the first team? Because the only difference of that version of Harry Kane to the one that we see now was a bag of balls and consistency. And fast forward to my final year, I went from the sixth team to the first team, finished my first ever season at step four as the top goal scorer. And I'm not saying I'm at this insane level like Harry Kane is, but that story told me something that I think every footballer needs to hear. Nobody who made it looked like they were going to make it at the start. The only thing that separated them, the only thing, was what they did when nobody was watching. And that's why I built Ballr, because the extra sessions, the ones after everyone else has gone home, those are the ones that change everything. And they're a lot easier to show up for when you're not doing them alone. 700 footballers are already on the waitlist to be notified when Ballr launches. Link in bio.