Football players think and plan differently for life after the green turn.
Some switch to administration with others venturing into other areas but most of them develop interest in coaching.
One Ghanaian player who has turned attention to the dugout is former Asante Kotoko midfielder, Daniel Nii Adjei.
The now 35-year-old had an illustrious career in Ghana with the Porcupine Warriors where he won three league titles and one Super Cup.
Nii Adjei spoke to Accra based Radio Gold on transitioning from playing into coaching.
“When you are playing the only thing you do is thinking about being fit and getting ready for training programmes and then matches.
“But becoming a coach, you have to prepare everything, strategy, plans, system and everything.
“So being a coach is more difficult for me than playing.
“Being a player, you are being directed by a coach to go on the field and do what you have been instructed to do.
“Being the coach, you are the one planning on how the players are going to play and how they are going stand and everything.
“So being a coach is about teaching and telling the players what to do and then being a player is just listening to your coach and then he advising you on what to do.” Daniel Nii Adjei told Radio Gold Sports.
His journey with Congolese side, TP Mazembe earned him the CAF Champions League in 2015, two Confederation Cup in 2016 and 2017 and a Super Cup in 2016 before he left for Morocco outfit, Wydad Athletic Club.
The CAF Super Cup with WAC in 2018 was another feather in his tea cup.
Nii Adjei has completed his license D coaching course and will soon be done with the C before taking up the B and the A courses.
