This is what Roger Federer says he'd be doing if he wasn't a tennis player — and why he chose the sport instead

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• Tennis champion Roger Federer once considered becoming a professional soccer player.
• Federer would have found himself in the same era as Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar.
• But he chose tennis because he "wanted to be in total control."

Roger Federer, widely considered the greatest tennis player of all time, once hoped to be a soccer player.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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