“Didier was the preliminary one – Chelsea is like one large household and we simply sat and ate within the canteen with the gamers and so we began a dialog organically whereas consuming,” says Menon.
“He requested what I can do for him, and I advised him we are able to do this, and he requested me to strive immediately. That was the second the place soccer opened in entrance of me.
“After that Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, John Terry started coming to me to strive it.
“The medical division have been unbelievable and made me a part of their group, regardless of being from a unique self-discipline.”
Menon's classes concerned meditation, sharpening gamers' psychological method and dispelling the damaging ideas that may include top-flight strain and scrutiny.
“I used to be an individual and not using a title, instructing the gamers self-care and how you can stability, spiritually, emotionally, and in the end influence them bodily,” says Menon.
“They're human beings and want a pal to giggle with, babble to after which they are going to open up.
“You want to be glad within the thoughts in sports activities and enterprise. It's the identical – the thoughts is all the pieces.”
Menon was a continuing presence within the Chelsea backroom workers for 13 years, working beneath managers resembling Carlo Ancelotti, Rafael Benitez, Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and, lastly, Thomas Tuchel.
“I bought the prospect to be a part of all of the trophies Chelsea gained from 2010,” he says.
“What an expertise, it was an unbelievable house, I miss it loads, frankly.”
