{"id":908187,"date":"2026-09-28T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/908187\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T05:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:12:10","slug":"it-isnt-hard-being-a-footballer-real-madrid-forward-endrick-dismisses-football-pressure-claims-and-highlights-plight-of-ordinary-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/908187\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It isn&#8217;t hard being a footballer&#8217; &#8211; Real Madrid forward Endrick dismisses football pressure claims and highlights plight of ordinary workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to Brazilian television channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/TVGlobo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">TV Globo<\/a>, the striker stressed the importance of being grateful for everything football provides. Highlighting the contrast between elite football and everyday working life, Endrick said: &#8220;We [footballers] face enormous pressure, but we have to be grateful for what football provides us. Of course there are high-pressure moments, but football gives us wonderful things that can change our families&#8217; lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing complaints about pressure in the sport, he added: &#8220;It isn&#8217;t hard being a footballer. Yes, certain things that happen are difficult, but we cannot claim that being a player is hard. What&#8217;s hard is being someone who wakes up at 5am to go to work, labouring Monday to Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to Brazilian television channel TV Globo, the striker stressed the importance of being grateful for everything football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,11308,143402,596,43873,41288,22455,85],"class_list":["post-908187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brazil","tag-endrick","tag-football","tag-friendlies","tag-laliga","tag-real-madrid","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}