Working to help the next generation

RANGERS

ONE chapter of Andy Little’s career is over. The next is only just beginning as he looks to the future and to the next generation.

The Northern Irishman has decided to call time on his playing days after becoming frustrated with injuries and the sacrifices needed to continue pulling on his boots.

He still has a love for the game, though, and his new business opportunity will give him the chance to remain in football and help pass on his experiences to those he hopes to take under his wing.

Little told SportTimes: “I have got involved in a football agency called Pro Revolution Sports. It is myself and two Glasgow-based lawyers that I have known for a wee while now and I have been helping them.

“We are really just starting out and the fact that I have now retired, it gives me more time.

“I will be the one that speaks to players and helps them and goes and watches games.

“I am buzzing about it. Because my career is over, I can now relive it through some of the players that we get.”

As his desire to keep playing started to wane, Little took the popular route of kicking off his coaching career as he returned to the Rangers Academy.

But the effects of the freak training ground clash that resulted in a fractured skull and eye socket were still holding him back.

“The coaching has been kind of stop start because the headaches were strong and I was struggling with them.

“When you are coaching Under-10s and running around with them, that is not much fun.

“Rangers have been brilliant with me and they have left it open for me but, at the moment, I am not going down the coaching route.”