Elf Whiteman has been with the London club for over 15 years, and 26 have left professional sports.
Elf Whiteman, the great goalkeeper of London's Tottenham Hotspur, has radically changed his life. Not long ago, we were sitting on the bench during the early Europa League final in Bilbao and celebrating the triumph on an open-air bus through the streets of London.
Just a few months after this success, 26 years later, he made the reluctant decision to end his professional football career. After completing his contract with Spurs, Whiteman joined the Championship and First League clubs. One of the coaches called his decision to participate in sports evil. Instead of football goals, choosing the camera lens and creativity.
This is the same goiter, in essence, on the right side of all life. Tse vidmova is like this kind of “cotton world”. But over the past few months, I have spent the last hour in my life, having learned so much and been fortunate enough to work with talented people,” says Whiteman..
Whiteman, who joined the club in the 10th century before his childhood academy, knows that he does not fit into the classic stereotype of a professional football player.. While his teammates were in Dubai playing golf, wine:.
Getting to training by bike or train. . Writing reviews of hundreds of films for the film social network Letterboxd. Grave in experimental theater productions in London. Over the weekend, I worked as an assistant on important Maidans and met with producers.
" All my teammates were miracles, and we got along well, except for the robot. “I’ll be a little different from now on,” explains the great goalkeeper.
Now Elf Whiteman is alive to other lives. Having signed a contract as a director and photographer with the production company Somesuch, he owns a studio in Shoreditch, and also takes part in international film projects filming in Pakistan and Ukraine.
He is opening his debut art exhibition entitled “Alfie Whiteman: Posing” not today, but in the OOF gallery, located directly at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The main theme of the exhibition is the hour spent in loan for the Swedish club Degerfors.
Living on his own in a forest hut on the birch of Lake Mokeln, far from the London Palace, Whiteman made experimental self-portraits. In photographs on Holy Day, people can be seen in the forest, hanging on a drying machine, or sitting naked on a pier, looking at the water..
" This also reflects how I was alive before - I never shared my life in vain. It’s nice to marvel at them at the same time in another state, just as a final part of my life,” the Mitetz suggests.
For his many rocks at the club, Whiteman played for Tottenham only once, while Jose Mourinho replaced Joe Hart in the upcoming Europa League match against Ludogorets in 2020..