How to become a professional footballer.

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    Believe yourself and stay dedicated to your goals. With these qualities, there is no limit to achieving success in football. While talent and skill are important, other factors can help you become a professional footballer. We will provide tips and ideas on how to start and pursue a career in football. Let us begin by discussing 9 essential qualifications - Start young - Master the basics - Practice practice practice - Join a local youth league - Be mentally tough - Passion and Drive - Physical training - Reputation and exposure - Education and mentality Start young :   To become an elite professional footballer, you need to start early. Football is a sport that requires time and practice to master.. By playing street football, you will learn teamwork, and discipline and gain confidence to play at a higher level. Master the basics : Mastering the fundamentals is essential for learning any skill, including football. The basics of football are dribbling, passing, shoot...
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Ken Sema: Watford midfielder says his stammer doesn't define him in his latest interview

A quick interview with Watford's media team after he scored two goals in a 3-2 win over West Brom - nothing out of the ordinary there, a routine part of a footballer's post-match duties.

But that brief chat posted on Twitter, a one-minute 41-second exchange about his return from injury and goal technique, blew up.

His stammer had caught the attention of millions. He just thought he'd had a good game.

"For the video to become so big, it was amazing because there was so much love, so many big names like 'role model', 'inspiration' - that I'd helped so many kids or adults who also have a stammer," midfielder Sema told BBC Breakfast.

The 29-year-old has made more than 100 appearances for the Hornets since joining from Ostersunds FK in 2018, nearly five years in which he has conducted countless interviews. Yet this one was different and has, at the time of writing, racked up more than 11.5m views on Watford's Twitter account alone, and millions more elsewhere.

"I didn't expect it, but I'm happy about it, thankful about every comment and if I can help, I'm here to help," he said.

For Sema, his stammer has "felt normal, a part of me" since he was six years old, the age at which it "just came" along as he grew up in Norrkoping, a city in the east of Sweden.

It posed little extra trouble as he learned English as a second language, and he has refused to let it lay barriers in his path

"Obviously I had some days where I was a little bit more nervous," said Sema, who has 14 caps for his country. "But it never affected me in a way that [I thought] 'I can't do it'.

"I always had this dream to become a footballer. I didn't see this as an issue.

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