"Football Saved My Life, I Used To Wash Cars To Get Money For Soccer Boot" Alexis Sanchez

Arsenal and Chile player Alexis Sanchez narrates his ordeal on the road to success, he said success didn't come in a day, it was a gradual process coined with determination. 

I used to wash cars for such little money just so I had enough money to buy football boots. My family was so poor that football for me was about survival. I told my mother from a young age: ‘ Don’t worry, I will become a footballer and get us out of this situation. If I had failed I would be working 15 hour days on a construction site and still not earning enough to live. Football saved me – Alexis Sanchez