The life of a professional footballer is a dream for most people. You get paid handsomely to play the most popular sport in the world. The fame and notoriety are to die for. Yet even this high of highs isn’t enough to completely satisfy the one percent who actually make it to the top of the game, and Nicklas Bendtner is walking, talking proof of that. The former Denmark international could have been one of Europe’s very best strikers. It’s just hard to envisage that knowing how his life actually played out. If you replayed Bendtner’s career a hundred times, he would have been a success story in over half of those outcomes.
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