Hey,
When someone lands a role in football, the word that tends to come up is “lucky.”
“He was lucky to get that opportunity.”
“She was lucky that she already had a connection”
“Lucky timing.”
It’s always meant kindly. But it misses what actually happened.
Because in almost every case I’ve seen, the luck wasn’t random. It was built.
My own break came from Andy Reid, then the Nottingham Forest under-23s coach, reaching out and asking me to do work on their loan players. Brennan Johnson was one of them.