No sad story, just strong all through
Fans often want heroes to be underdogs who fought against great odds to be where they are – Diego Maradonna, Carlos Tevez, Rivaldo – just a number of players who fought the odds to become what they became, heroes to a generation of children.
Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez came from similar means - that is to say, barely any. Helping his mother, who swept garbage and sold fish when he was a child, he has since gone on to build football grounds in his hometown in Chile.
Roger Federer, luckily for him, had no such issues. Growing up in a steady family allowed him the luxury of pursuing a sport. No horror stories of over indulgent parents or the need to find sponsors to afford playing the game – a problem that has lost us so many worthy athletes, no wars where he needed to practice in Swimming pools (we’re looking at you, Novak Djokovic!) or plagued by family issues a la Mary Pierce or Andre Agassi.
There was just nothing odd or out of the ordinary in the way Federer grew up, perhaps comparably ‘sheltered’, and so that ‘glory rags to riches story’ may be missing from his otherwise glittering trophy case.
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