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What do footballers do when they retire after years in the limelight and earning monster salaries?
Well, history shows some become coaches, others trainers or sports commentators while ambitious ones try their hand in politics.
A former Manchester United player, however, has opened a new career window for footballers who hang their boots.
Philip Mulryne, according to mirror.co.uk, was recently ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order in Dublin and is working hard to win lost souls.
The player made five appearances for United sometime in the mid-1990s after successfully graduating from the club’s academy.
He, thereafter, moved to Norwich in 1999, where he played 135 times in a six-year spell earning £600,000 (Sh81 million) a-year but has now taken a vow of poverty after being ordained.
During his ordination, according to the news site, Archbishop Di Noia who conducted the service observed: “In a real sense, your experience as an athlete has helped to prepare you for this moment, you have known the meaning of working hard to attain a goal, and now the goal is Christ.”
