Vinay Menon knew nothing about football when he went for a meeting at a West London mansion in 2009. A few weeks later he was in the heart of the Chelsea dressing room.
Vinay Menon knew little about Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich. He knew even less about football; he had never seen a match in his life.
Menon then came to London to run private classes for the Abramovichs. But Roman was so impressed by Menon that he sent him to Chelsea's Cobham training ground with a brief to work with the first-team squad as the Premier League's first wellness coach."I was an Indian, who was never exposed to football, entering a massive club and it seemed impossible.
"He asked what I can do for him, and I told him we can try this, and he asked me to try right away. That was the moment where football opened in front of me."The medical department were fantastic and made me part of their team, despite being from a different discipline." "Another management team came in which is very ambitious, very different, from a different region, understanding football on a different level.
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