Tottenham HotspurThat’s exactly what former Tottenham Hotspur player Maya Vio did when she left the same club she joined as a nine-year-old last year – the same year they earned their first-ever promotion to the professional top-flight. The now 22-year-old had to make a decision between her medicine career or her future in football and after desperately trying to juggle the two, decided that her first-ever passion would become her ultimate sacrifice. Commuting from St George’s Hospital in Tooting to Enfield four times a week, the pain was too much. “I’d get home past midnight and then have to get up before 7am to go back into work and it wasn’t healthy. “When I was playing third-tier football, the thought of being a professional never even crossed my mind.

Source: Express January 24, 2020 14:26 UTC