Sporting Kansas City's Jimmy Nielsen takes a gamble on a new tell-all autobiography | THE WORD
THE WORDis MLSsoccer.com's weekly long-form series. This week, writer Steve Brisendine looks at one of the most candid figures in Major League Soccer in Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen, who discusses his new tell-all biography and the gambling addiction that nearly derailed his career.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jimmy Nielsen has been over this before, with anyone who asks. He heard the questions when he signed here, and he answered them.
Yes, he had a gambling problem. No, he doesn't now. It's in the past.
Nielsen has made good on those answers. And for better than half a decade, he was content to let the stories of his failures fade deeper into memory and the newspaper archives. This wasn't him any more.
Oh, he owned those headlines and the stories underneath them. The public suspension from his Under-21 nationalteam. The Casino Jimmy nickname that still sticks to him in his native Denmark. The furor when he bet on his own club in the national soccer pool. The debts that brought the full extent of his addiction to light in his soccer-mad home.
And he owned the pain of having to confess that addiction to his loved ones and his club in the hours before everyone else learned about it, too.
Those were the most stressful hours, the most painful hours of my life, Nielsen says now. You don't want to see the people you love get hurt. I love my parents. I love my wife. I love my kids, my friends, everything.You don't want to see them hurt because of you. At that moment, there was no sneaking around.
Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen covers his gambling addiction at length in his new book, and says now that "I thought I had it under control, but I didn't. I was always looking for the next big win." (USA Today Sports)
He endured that moment, though, and he finally made his third attempt at rehab stick. And he put it all into a book seven years ago, moved to the middle of America four years after that, and left that part of his life on the other side of the Atlantic until now.
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Sporting Kansas City's Jimmy Nielsen takes a gamble on a new tell-all autobiography | THE WORD
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