Nick Saban is certainly one of faculty soccer’s most legendary coaches. He’s arguably the best of all-time and repeatedly finds himself competing for a nationwide title. However at 70 years outdated and after greater than 50 years within the sport of soccer, is Saban nearing retirement?
No. No he isn’t.
“I don’t actually take into consideration retiring,” Saban just lately advised ON3. “I at all times take into consideration what the heck am I going to do if I do retire? That’s a scary thought.
“There’s nothing that I wish to do like some individuals wish to go to Europe or go to Scotland and play golf and all that. I wouldn’t thoughts doing all that stuff, however I don’t need to give up my job to do it. I fear about what am I going to do if I don’t do that?”
It isn’t a lot the necessity for a substitute pastime that issues Saban, it’s his love of competitors. And extra particularly, his love of feeling completed after profitable.
“Once I say, ‘What am I going to do?’ I don’t imply play golf or no matter,” Saban added. “I imply, how are you going to get any sort of constructive self-gratification or feeling of accomplishment whenever you’ve accomplished one thing for therefore lengthy that you simply like a lot after which unexpectedly it’s not there? In order that’s query. I don’t actually have the reply to that one.”
After what Saban known as a “rebuilding” yr, he’s prepared to steer the Crimson Tide again to prominence in 2022. They’re ranked No. 1 within the preseason AFCA Coaches Ballot.
