{"id":42606,"date":"2025-11-22T06:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=42606"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:26:53","slug":"c364gz4ekyloat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/22\/c364gz4ekyloat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Bukayo Saka on becoming a part-time barista, switching off from football and why it was always Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly: <\/b>Who&#8217;s the first person you speak to after a game?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo: <\/b>Depends how I&#8217;m feeling. I&#8217;m not really a big phone-call person.  Normally I would text my brother. I get a lot of texts, especially if you win or you score&#8230; a lot of people congratulate you, which is nice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly: <\/b>What&#8217;s an ideal day off look like for you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo: <\/b>Ideal day off &#8211; wake up in the morning, go for a walk by myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly: <\/b>Do you like time to yourself?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo: <\/b>Yeah. Recently, more than ever, I&#8217;ve liked going for walks with nature, I just relax. I think it&#8217;s so peaceful, it&#8217;s nice. Come back, have some breakfast, and then probably go into London, just get some food with my closest people &#8211; something I like doing &#8211; going to restaurants and stuff like that. If I have even more energy, maybe some shopping, and, yeah, just enjoying that side of things if it&#8217;s a full day off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly: <\/b>What are your hobbies?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo:<\/b> Football. Recently, I like making coffees. I&#8217;m into my coffee era, yeah. I think I&#8217;m a part-time barista now. I&#8217;m trying to learn how to do the art. That&#8217;s hard. It&#8217;s so hard but I&#8217;m getting there, I&#8217;m getting better. I haven&#8217;t been able to draw anything yet. I&#8217;m going to take lessons soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly: <\/b>What&#8217;s your proudest moment of your career today?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo: <\/b>I think I&#8217;d say where I am now. You know, the circumstances I grew up in and the ups and downs and the challenges, setbacks or whatever that I&#8217;ve dealt with and to still be here today and in the position I&#8217;m in, going strong, still focused, motivated and happy. I think it&#8217;s probably something that gets overlooked and something I can definitely be proud of. As I get a bit older, you understand that sometimes you can&#8217;t always be fully invested in football 24\/7. You need to have a good balance and give your mind some time to switch off as well and enjoy the other aspects of life too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly: <\/b>At what point did you get to realise that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo: <\/b>I think it was last season when I got injured. Before then, I was almost like on autopilot &#8211; game after game, recovery, game. And I didn&#8217;t really take in anything else. But obviously, when you get injured, you can&#8217;t do what you love, you can&#8217;t play football. So I was literally in the brace, on the crutches, for almost a month. And you have to entertain yourself in other ways. So it just opened up that part of my brain to different sides of things. And I think since then, it&#8217;s been like, there&#8217;s a bit more to life than football. It&#8217;s not just football, but at the same time, football is my life. So it&#8217;s just trying to find a balance because I&#8217;ve still [got] the same dedication, the same motivation, but just trying to find that little break and switch off as well at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly: <\/b>If you could only achieve one more thing in your life, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo: <\/b>All the trophies &#8211; Arsenal and England. It&#8217;s definitely something I want to achieve in my career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly:<\/b> How would you describe the Bukayo Saka sitting in front of me?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo: <\/b>I think I explained a bit earlier the natural evolution. The player and person I was, what was expected of me and the life I lived then, is completely different to the one now. Naturally, as you go from there to there, you learn different things, you mature, you grow, stuff like that. So, yeah, I think that&#8217;s probably the biggest difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kelly:<\/b> You still like having fun though, don&#8217;t you? Because I know you&#8217;re one of the jokers in the dressing room as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bukayo: <\/b>Yeah, it&#8217;s the most important thing, I think. Have fun, smile, laugh every day. I think you can&#8217;t miss that. No matter what, you can&#8217;t miss that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Bukayo #Saka #parttime #barista #switching #football #Arsenal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly: Who&#8217;s the first person you speak to after a game? Bukayo: Depends how I&#8217;m feeling. 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