Ryan Babel, youtuber

How much do we know about the everyday footballer's life? Nothing, almost nothig. We know the stats, market value, on Instagram we lurke what car they drive or where they go to eat for dinner. But it is difficult to understand what is the everyday life of a professional footballer in 2017. Paulo Dybala said in an interview to Vanity Fair a few weeks ago that "When we have a ball in our feet, we footballers are very happy. in the backstack, it's often not really beautiful ". This has to do with the way football has changed: the physicality of the game and the professionalization of the clubs. The glossy life of footballers in the 90s was replaced by the philosophy of the robotic work of Messi and Ronaldo, the daring fantasy of the ten - marginalized by the tactical evolution - was replaced by the culture of running and physique.

Footballer's everyday life is made of work and routine: daily workouts, gym, diet, light friendships with guys who come from half the world with very little in common, apart from the profession and salary. One of the few honest stories of a footballer's life is Ryan Babel on his Youtube channel. The former promise of Dutch football, son of the great Ajax nursery, has played in half of Europe - mostly foregone expectations - and today has found its size in Turkey at Besiktas. On his YouTube channel he publishes videos that are the most truthful documentary on the everyday life of a European footballer, including festivities in the locker room, friends in Europe and holidays in Colombia. The videos of Babel are not existential or sad, the hd look and the electronic background music make them fast and fast, what really interested me is that they capture all those moments of black hole - the bus to go to the stadium, the day free from training - that the the football world never tells. Here I selected five videos that from his Youtube channel.

Championship Celebration

What Babel does in his spare time in Munich? feat. David Alaba

Colombia's holiday

Extra training

The derby against Trabzonspor