The column this week comes from a conversation I was having with one of my coaches from the ISL last week.

The conversation led to a question he had to ask about the young man Kris Frick's decision to walk out of the national football team last week.

Well, I replied in telling him that some things we just should not do as a player and as an employee.

No matter if it is with sports or the workplace we should not expose ourselves, our jobs, our team or country to that matter. This seems to be a common reaction with some of the young athletes today.

We have to understand that life is not going to be that easy for us; we would have mountains to climb and hurdles to go over and success does not come that easy, so in our strive to move forward we would not always see eye to eye with the heads in charge.

This decision made by young Frick during the Digicel Cup competition was not a wise one, but I am not going to cry him down in this column, because each reaction has been caused by an action and we do not know what had been going on up to that point, but also I would not defend his decision.

For the young footballer I would say that you have work to do, my advice to you is to take a professional approach from this point and mend this fence, you have too much talent and too much love for the game to leave a bad last impression on your peers and your country.

See, you may have the greatest reasons to why you made that decision, but understand that you walked away from a programme that could help move you forward, you walked away from your peers, you walked away from your passion and something that you love do and let's not forget your country. You must not allow anyone to put you in a position to act as you did, yes, protect your integrity but do it in a mature manner.

Kris, I know you may be getting some coaching on holding ground and sticking to what you believe, but young man let me bring some professional light to the situation, when players are scouting for the professional teams or even jobs, some of the first things we as scouts do before seeing the players play is to check national team back ground, the internet where we search players names, than their peers and coaches for a profile.

So, you may sit there and feel that you are not going back and mend this fence because you believe in your decision, yes, I would agree that sometimes we would have to stand up for what we believe in, but this was the time where better judgment should have came into play before taking that stand.

Understand that we are not bigger than this game, we are all just passing through, our job is to keep the integrity and respect for it as high as possible and always leave a good mark behind for younger ones coming through.

This advice is not just for you, but also for all of us involved.

So, I ask you where do you go from here? Do you continue to stand your post?

Or do you sit down and look yourself in the mirror and think about the steps you will take to mend what has been broken.

Listen, I am not saying that the decisions made on you was right or wrong, I am saying that you have to at all times leave a positive last impression and let the chips fall where they may after that.

Remind yourself that you only have control over your actions and judge no one but yourself.

I wish you the best in your game and hope that you make the right decision as you move forward in your career.

Until next time!