Top sports stars have often expressed apprehensions about prolonged stays in the bio-bubble and although India footballer Sandesh Jhingan agrees with his approach, he says it is “right now” from the lives of soldiers deployed in sub-zero temperatures. Not worse”.
Athletes’ bubble life began in mid-2020 when sporting action resumed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three months after the outbreak brought everything to a halt.
“It (life in a bubble) is not so scary to be honest, but it is tough because you are locked in your room right now. This is my fourth or fifth bubble now and in the last two years, I have been in bubble only with the national team, club, but it is the same,” 28-year-old Jhingan told PTI in an interview.
The star defender said, “It’s still not worse than people who are in the military, people who have been in minus 50 or 60 for months and years, there are worse things or difficult things happening in the world right now. That’s a lot.” Challenging, and I suffer a lot, but I look at the positive side.”
Jhingan is currently playing for ATK Mohun Bagan in the Indian Super League, coming back from an unproductive stint in Croatia, where he did not get a chance to play a competitive game due to an “injury”.
On bubble life, the Chandigarh-born centre-back elaborated, “(It’s) part of the job, it’s difficult. You miss your parents, you miss your family, you miss your brothers, it’s hard, you are here and time is passing, parents are getting old, of course You feel like ‘I wish I was home’.
“But that’s what we choose as a player. We miss our personal life a lot, it’s always secondary, so before we turned professional we knew that if we go down this path, life will always be the last thing.” Will be (and) the main thing is just work.
According to Jhingan, not playing in the ISL or international matches would have been more disappointing for him.
“What’s happening now, it’s so unpredictable, nobody expected it, so you can’t blame anybody, we just have to ride with it, accept it because it will be more disappointing if the league doesn’t happen If there is no international match, it will be more disappointing for me.
“I’m glad the games are happening and life goes on,” he said.
Speaking about the great Sunil Chhetri, who has been their captain, Jhingan said, “The more you say, the less is about Sunil Paaji.
“He has been a great servant of the country. Learned a lot from him, but if I can choose one thing, it’s nutrition.
“I remember when we were in under-23, he came to the Asian Games as a senior and at that time this nutrition talk was not followed that much in my group. He introduced it to us and we all learned about it and got involved, then we took advantage of it.”
Recently, Jhingan signed a multi-year deal with sportswear giant Adidas.
On the partnership, he said, “Personally, if I talk about myself, this is the brand we talk about only in our city of Chandigarh and amongst our friends. It was something that we initially fell in love with. happened.
“We all started watching football and there was the World Cup and there were adidas balls.”
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