Mental Health, Crime, Sport, Community, and Island Life: The Post-Retirement Struggles of a Fiji Soccer Hero

Abstract This article explores the soccer career of ex-Fiji national-team player, Henry Dyer, and his post-retirement struggles. He experiences ‘fragmentation’ because two ‘epiphanies’ (traumatic life-events)—his failure to get an elite coaching job after retirement secure overseas playing-contract. After a period fragmentation, when he cut all ties with sport, has reinvented himself as caring person who, through social support club, Nadi Legends Club, visits ex-players going illness. We also use Henry’s story gateway explore (1) race class aspects; (2) masculinity issues. look at case theoretical lenses symbolic interactionism Foucault on power.