Leothebear wrote:My estimate was based previous reading, that the players train for 3 hours a day for 4 days a week. Then match day.
You dispute this, so I repeat please enlighten me.
As I have mentioned previously on this site I am an official at a non-league club. Along with the other Directors we know a lot about the running of a football club, not just from a business perspective, but the footballing side too.
I am not going to mention the name of the club, it's not important. Suffice to say I would imagine at least 99% of football followers would have heard of it, and I would estimate the vast majority of non-football supporters too.
Our players are part time, and as such I would expect them to "work" less than full time players do. Our squad will train together 3 times a week for 3-4 hours a session. In addition to this there will be individual sessions for fitness, speed, or for specialists such as goalkeepers, other tailored sessions. On top of this there is additional physio, recuperation, and other non-football work. On match days they will be "at work" for 6 hours for a home match, and away matches would be more (unless you want to count travel as non-work commuting!). There might be 2 matches each week, some only 1.
In addition the players will have other football commitments such as media work, interacting with fans etc. For league clubs there will be other community work as well.
I'm sure many (like me) would dream of such a "job", but to think it is just 12-15 hours of "fun" would be a mistake in reality.