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Game over: how professional athletes can have a career after sport

  • Written by Steve McKenna, Associate Professor of Management, Curtin University
imageSome professional players find it difficult to change their routine to adjust to other careers when they retire.www.shutterstock.com

When we interviewed “Barry” – a former ice hockey player in the National Hockey League – he was still struggling to come to terms with the fact that his career as a professional athlete was...

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