Years before Psalm Kolenda experienced it himself, he watched his older brother struggle with isolation in football.
Despite his dedication, his brother found himself barely seeing the field. One night after training, Psalm watched his older brother, someone he had always viewed as fearless, curl up in the back of their mother’s car and cry. No one in his football environment had asked what was happening inside his head. Years later, Psalm found himself in a similar position.
While playing U19 football in Germany, Psalm was substituted out at halftime and never received an explanation about what had gone wrong or what he needed to improve. He kept showing up and training harder, but as the weeks passed without communication, determination slowly turned into isolation. Psalm began to feel invisible.
From the outside, he looked fine. He went to school, talked to friends, trained, and smiled. But internally, he was struggling to sleep, losing his appetite, and beginning to dread the sp...
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