Ex-Chelsea academy star retires at 24 and joins Army after losing taste for football

Ex-Chelsea academy star retires at 24 and joins Army after losing taste for football

Former Chelsea academy goalkeeper Nicolas Tie has retired from football at the age of 24 and joined the French army.

Former Chelsea Goalkeeper Joins French Army, Says He Is Ready to Serve in Ukraine

Former Chelsea goalkeeper Nicolas Tié has announced his readiness to participate in a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine after ending his professional football career. In an interview with the French newspaper Ouest-France on April 25, Tié stated that he had long aspired to a military career and no longer saw a future for himself in football. According to Tié, he lost interest in playing professionally and decided to join the French army. His decis…

Former representative of the London “Chelsea” Nicholas Tye declared his readiness to join the peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. “I lost my taste for football. I was always afraid of the military professions, so I said to myself: “Why should you not go into the army?” My father was a paratrooper in Cote d'Ivoire, I went to barracks, trained... It caught me off guard. “I took upon myself the remaining problem of this originator. If the initial oper…

Former Chelsea goalkeeper Nicolas Thie has announced his readiness to join the peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. The 24-year-old footballer admitted that he always dreamed of a military career and no longer sees himself in football. This is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to an interview with the former athlete, now a military man, in the French newspaper Ouest-France. What Thie said about his readiness to go to Ukraine According to Thie, …

The French army has just recruited a former Ivorian goaltender, who recently joined the ranks of the 1st regiment of parachute hussards. It was not the career that Nicolas Tié dreamed of, who had joined Chelsea's training centre from Poitiers at age 13. Promised to a bright future, after winning the Youth League (the League of Youth Champions) during the 2017-2018 season with Chelsea, the native of Lille decided to join the Portuguese championsh…

Signed by Chelsea when he was only 13 years old, Nicolas Tié decides to retire prematurely, at the age of 24. The former professional goaltender starts a reconversion in the army, announced West...