“I feel [social media] impacts you,” stated Mikael. “All people says I’m not studying it, however you need to, and you’re simply curious to know what individuals take into consideration you. It’s vital to not be obsessed by it, which is tough to evaluate when you’re a participant when you’re simply turning 20, taking part in first-team soccer and you’re underneath loads of scrutiny.
“Your self, your efficiency, [and] your personal life is uncovered, so I feel it might have been robust [for me]. However the truth that I used to be settled with my spouse [helped] and I feel additionally the supervisor was a superb policeman in that respect. In a great way. I exploit this phrase as a result of at my time we simply began the gamers to have our personal web site, so I used to be tempted to do it, so I did. Somebody was operating a web page for me.
“To start with, we might do interviews after each recreation so, about I don’t know, 10 questions after each recreation. On the cellphone, somebody would write down after which we’d publish it on the web site the day after, in all probability. However then it began being picked up by the tabloids, you recognize the papers, and when it was translated then the boss may learn it. And with a few of them, he wasn’t completely happy in any respect. You recognize, whenever you say, ‘I don’t suppose we carried out properly,’ he thought that solely he may say that.
“So for me, it was my interview on my web site after which it was on the again web page of the paper, so I bought the hairdryer twice. So I shut down the web site right away after that!”