When footballers decide to hang up their boots, there are a number of exciting career avenues that they can turn to.
Some choose to go into the managerial and coaching game, while others veer off to punditry on the likes of Sky Sports, BT and the BBC - while others end up presenting popular TV programmes, like Dion Dublin did with Homes Under the Hammer.
However, it's less commonplace that professionals trade the wing of the pitch for the wings of an aeroplane.
