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How a Football Manager regen is helping raise mental health awareness
Football Manager is a truly wonderful game, and one of its many obsessional fans is using the game for the greater good by getting young men to talk about mental health.
A few weeks ago, Jonny Sharples spoke to around 50 million listeners via the BBC World Service about Ivica Strok – an entirely fictional computer-generated footballer (called a ‘regen’) who appeared on his Football Manager game one day.
That might sound like a strange thing for the BBC to be interested in, but it&#;s all for an extremely good cause.
It started when Jonny’s brother, Simon, committed suicide in , leading Jonny to use Football Manager as a distraction.
Jonny’s dad, Roger, meanwhile, decided to raise money for charity in Simon’s honour. This is when the family discovered charity organisation CALM (Campaign against Living Miserably).
“My family and I were taken back when we heard stats like: suicide is the most common form of death for men under 40,&#; Jonny says.
&#;We didn’t want to buy Simon flowers for the funeral because he was a ‘lad’s lad’. We wanted to help others, so we decided to raise money for charity and eventually went for CALM because they closely associate with what we went through.&#;
Jonny has always
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The Greatest Footballer to Never Exist
The Greatest striker to never exist He's won everything in world football, a cult hero with a significant social media following, now he's helping people tackle the issue of mental health. But the most extraordinary thing about striker Ivica Strok is He doesn't exist! Strok came to 'life' in computer game Football Manager and for gamer Jonny Sharples, Strok helped him through a personal tragedy and believes he can help other too.
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