When the coronavirus lockdown left Anderson unable to discover a new membership, he began questioning how the cash he had earned at Metropolis had dwindled away.
“I keep in mind being 17 and never figuring out what to do with the cash, it was a frightening factor,” he says.
Anderson handed accountancy and finance exams after contacting the Skilled Footballers’ Affiliation for steerage.
He determined that path wasn’t for him, which led to him shadowing a monetary adviser close to his mother and father’ home.
He is labored in monetary planning and recommendation ever since, turning down a number of provides to return to the Soccer League as his coronary heart wasn’t in it.
His new pursuit supplied a stage of management and safety – in addition to objective – that enjoying lower-league soccer couldn’t.
“At Wycombe, I might get questions from older gamers,” he says. “I realised there’s a lack of schooling and help about finance in soccer.
“There’s not sufficient schooling, steerage and help for younger individuals with excessive earnings.
“When you’re a lower-league participant, your speedy precedence needs to be to plan for all times after soccer. When you’ve acquired that sorted, you may set your self and your loved ones up for years.
“I have a look at what I do know now and really feel like I would like to assist as many individuals in soccer as I can.”
However when he sees his former England team-mates succeeding on the high of the sport, does he have any regrets?
“I am proud to see them doing so properly, I do not sit there and assume I want I used to be doing that, or what might have been,” he says.
“I’ve acquired no regrets and I am not envious. I simply stopped having fun with it. When you supplied to place me of their conditions now, enjoying week-in week-out within the Premier League, I would not commerce that for what I am doing now.
“Once I have a look at my soccer profession, it gave me the chance to do what I do now. There aren’t many monetary advisers underneath 25 – or not many good ones anyway!”
