When I was younger, especially between the ages of 15 to around 27, I feel like I was a lot more invested in my own team and wider football in general. I knew my own squad inside & out and could easily list players from the majority of players in the top leagues.
However, now at age 36, I find that I really struggle to keep up with football in general. I hear about players my club is going to sign and a lot of the time I have no idea who they are. I’ll look at highlights of Serie A & La Liga and for the most part won’t recognise most of the players.
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like as they’re getting older, they’re less engaged with the game?
The older I get, my interest in football narrows only on my favorite team and my national team. I used to read the news, watch a lot of highlights, and used to be very invested in football, but now my interest has lessened a lot too. It’s unimportant. It’s time wasting. Don’t get me wrong, I still love and follow it, and depending on the outcome of my team it ruins my mood completely, but I’m just not interested as before on football in general since I got more responsibilities, prioritizing other things as well, since football used to be my only ‘expertise’ as a kid and teenager and feel kind of regretful I didn’t pick on other things as well.