Michel Vorm is throwing himself headfirst into life after football. Having left Tottenham Hotspur at the end of his contract this year, the goalkeeper later announced he’d be retiring from the game.
That wasn’t always the plan, and consideration would have been given to clubs from the Netherlands or Belgium, but nothing attractive enough came forward and the 37-year-old goalkeeper didn’t want to take something he wouldn’t be fully committed to.
So what now? Well, Vorm has opened a rather swish looking barber shop. There’s sports-bar in there as well as a ‘menicure’ area, and the Dutchman is entering a business which his father had previously been in.
Speaking to NOS, Vorm has been asked if he made the most of the career, with perhaps there being a hint from the Dutch outlet that he should have been a first choice goalkeeper for longer.
“Oof! That is a very difficult question,” Vorm replied. “I have also sometimes thought: if I had made choice A instead of choice B, it might have turned out differently. You don’t know.”
When moving from Swansea City to Spurs in 2014, he gave up his first choice status, and it sounds like he partly regrets it and partly doesn’t: “If you then notice after a year ‘I don’t play that much’, I could have looked further. But then you give it another season and suddenly you’re there for six years.
“There have been opportunities to leave in the meantime, but for me the feeling is very important. I was very much appreciated and was really part of the group. I have seen players grow up and I was the oldest in the group. had a certain influence on it, dare I say.
“And in the end I played more than 350 games in professional football and lived a childhood dream, that’s just the case. I am critical of myself, but in the end I am very happy and proud of what I have achieved.”
And so he should be, now it’s time to takeover the hairdressing world.
