Professional sporstmen frequently become the idols for people especially for teenagers. The good example is a football: this game is extremely popular today end every second boy wants to be like a football player, because footbal players are sucessful, rich, attractive and they dont have to work in the boring office. Instead of that they just play football so they do their favorite job. Moreover such people are very purposeful, they know exactly what they want, they used to overcome difficulties.

Althought there is another opinion about professional athletes. First of all the main disadvantage of professional sport is loosing healf. It is thought that sporsmen are very unhealthy people who have much more problems with health that usual men and women. Athletes have to train practically every day, for many hours. The are suffering from extra-pressure. And we should remember that usually people who want to become professional athletes start trainig very early in their childhood. So despite of many deseases which they get they also loose their childhood. Future sportsmen cannot play with their friends in the yard because they have to practice! So, this is another side of the medal.  I also want to mention that usually (not always but very often!) these "sport kids" cannot receive a proper level of education: they usually miss the classes in order to attend trainings and they cannot complete their hometask just because they are too busy and have no time.

So, obviously there are advantages and disadvantages of being professional athletes. On the other hand it is better for young people if their role model is sportsman than for example their drug-addicted friend from the yard. On the other hand trying to become a great athletes children can receive problems with health and education. And also it can lead to some psycological trubles: the child can dream about  football player carier but he is not suitable for it so he starts to consider himself as a looser.

Nevertheless I personally agree that athletes can make good role models for teenagers. However it is necessary to draw the line: do not try to be somebody else. Just make an attemt to catch all good features of your favorite sporsman, for example his puposeful.But dont try to repeat all his life. You can be as srong as David Bcckham but you do not need to be a professional football player for that.

In cinclusion I want to say that every single profession have pros and cons and we should rememver that there is not ideal person.