It would be easy to believe that Dominik Szoboszlai is adjusting to life on Merseyside given he has been putting on dazzling displays on a regular basis throughout his first four months at Liverpool.
But we only get to see a small portion of his weekly activities on the field; we don’t get to see the reality of a young man attempting to adjust to a new life abroad following a well-publicized job shift.
In an honest interview, the 23-year-old talked candidly about life off the football pitch with Fodball journalist Mark Soos.
In a comment that Bence Bocsak translated for X, Szoboszlai acknowledged that he hasn’t always felt “lonely” in his time in England.
“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel lonely sometimes,” the Liverpool midfielder stated. Some days I just sit on the couch and brood over possible next steps. I then try to go to sleep by turning on a movie and looking forward to tomorrow.
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It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking of elite football players as Teflon-like commodities who make so much money that they should just move on and be happy that they get to live their passion.
Nonetheless, the football players we support every week are people just like us who experience both good and bad times. Their confident and joyful public personas may readily conceal the difficulties they are going through in their personal lives.
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Szoboszlai, who is only 23 years old, is still relatively new to living in England, so he will be adjusting to a new language and culture in addition to the pressure of having to repay the £60 million that one of the biggest clubs in the world of football paid for him. Nevertheless, his English is excellent.
much while we adore watching him perform on the field, it’s much more crucial that he be content and healthy in his day-to-day existence in Merseyside.
He should be commended greatly for having the guts to share his sentiments of fragility and loneliness off the field, but fortunately, he has Jurgen Klopp as his manager, who will treat him with the greatest compassion and understanding.
We hope that Szoboszlai will have a reliable support system nearby to get him through the difficult moments when he’s not at Anfield.
