"I'd been dreaming of a rural life for decades, but my work hampered me," Cheng says. "Cancer brought me the chance to start living all over again.

“我一直梦想能在乡村生活，但工作让我不能离开，”他说，“是这场癌症给我带来了重新生活的机会。

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After a while, the things that made me a great footballer hampered my life progress and I came to resent every one of them and, in turn, it led me down a very dark path.

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