After playing football for 11 months of the year, players in the professional game just want to blow off steam. Early nights, good nutrition and intense training go out the window – they want to escape the pressure on their shoulders.
Like many who receive their annual leave, many star quality time will spend Quality Time with their families, of which they spent many day away during the season.
The locations of their vacation are slightly more glamorous than where the average Joe goes, with Dubai, Barbados and Marbella among the popular destinations for football players who enjoy family time.
For players who hunt that trio of locations, it's time to kick their feet up, relax and get a tan.
However, not all players chase rest. After working as hard as they do so long, and with how disciplined they have to be to stay in top-top pursuit, many want to let go.
Where are they going to do that? Well, where better than Ibiza? It is the party capital of the world. And the only place they seem to go more than anywhere, is Ocean Beach, owned by Wayne Lineker.
Gary, launched by the Broer van Nu Former Competition of the Day Presenter, also a National Treasure – In 2012 O Beach is a hotspot for the biggest stars of the game, as well as a whole series of other celebrities.
'In June it is like a PFA meeting in Ocean. They are many of them. It's fun, “Lineker told Talksport last week.
Even Liverpool -Baas Arne Slot lived there earlier this month, after the Triumph 'Premier League of the Reds. The season was not even over at that time, but the partying on Ocean Beach was in full swing.
Slot could be seen to get a kiss on the brutal Van Lineker – no, not Gary – before he went behind the DJ covering as Queen's 'We are the Champions' bark.
It was originally thought that the Dutchman chose to go to Ibiza alone, while his Liverpool team had a large bash in Dubai. However, that was not the case.
“Who did we have last week?” Lineker went on. “Harvey Elliott was the other day. I ended up in Pacha with Elliott on Sunday morning at six. '
Jude Bellingham is the latest controversial football player who has welcomed the location with open arms in the location. The Real Madrid star, 21, chose to celebrate the promotion of his brother Jowe to the Premier League with Sunderland.
The golden boy of English football was completely smiling when he enjoyed different drinks with his friends and Lineker, while they were in an exclusive VIP area.
But what is it about O Beach that seduces so many stars? Every year Wayne can be seen with the next big name in football, or even music. The turnover of top stars in the club is simply remarkable.
The path of the 63-year-old is very different at a young age than older brother Gary. While one did big things with the ball at his feet, the other stopped school at 2 pm to pursue a career in the business world.
In 1986, Wayne opened his first bar when he looked to break into the hospitality scene. It was the same year in which Gary De Golden Boot Award won at the World Cup in Mexico, so he called the location in Tenerife, Lineker's Bar.
The bar was a huge success, and Lineker's reputation in the industry grew rapidly and brought it to Marbella and then Ibiza in 2008.
Four years later, Ocean Beach was opened and it only grew in popularity with every passing year. Lineker itself regards it as 'adult Disneyland', while celebrities and partygoers come into their thousands to get a glimpse of the Silver Fox.
“I compare it to Mickey Mouse in Disneyland when he comes out and everyone runs to get a photo,” Lineker once wore. 'But I am the Mickey Mouse of adult Disneyland.
“I literally have to plan my day around it because it is so intense, 500-600 photos a day.”
It is true, Snaps van Lineker and star flooding time on the daily. You can always see him pose with a celebrity at this time of the year, usually Jack Grealish.
Grealisk is a fixture on Ocean Beach with Lineker who is joking once about the prospect of a four-week loan agreement before the Manchester City-Man in his beach club, after his absence of the English Euro 2024 team.
Believe it or not, however, Grealish is not considered the biggest spender at Lineker's Party Empire. It is not even a football player at all.
Controversial mixed martial artist Conor McGregor and YouTuber-Boxer boxer KSI are the individuals who splash the most money, with Lineker opened about what it was like to host the couple.
“I had solved everything for KSI. Make sure he was up to the owner – it's the best place, “he told The Let Me Land Podcast last year.
'And because they have the boat with 100 bottles of champagne, that all went to the table. They did well. But yes, KSI was probably, as far as celebrities go, the biggest party.
'We have other people who just go crazy and spend a lot of money. It is clear that Conor McGregor … He party! When he comes in, it's just a parade. He has all his security with him. '
It is believed that KSI spent no less than £ 51,000 on 600 bottles of champagne during his trip to Ocean Beach in June 2023. Don't scratch your eyes, that is a real sentence.
In the meantime, McGregor made his notorious visit in 2022 for his 34th birthday alongside family and friends, where the Irishman even got into a fight with a fellow party -partygoer who threw a hat at him.
Not all celebrities have had positive experiences, spirit.
Jonathan Hutchinson – a former football player of Birmingham City – was paralyzed after he broke his neck after a dip in the swimming pool of Ocean Beach in 2016.
The ex-Pro, which played in the Blues-Acherlijn during the Premier League 2001-02 season, was found unmoved in a swimming pool before being taken to the hospital, where it was discovered that he had contracted devastating spinal cord glasles.
The now 43-year-old now requires 24-hour care and decided in 2020 to take legal action against the club and Lineker to sue £ 8.5 million compensation.
However, Lineker's reputation remains impeccably in the famous party scene and the recent journey from Bellingham to his club indicates the start of a wave of football players that Ibiza will hit in the summer.
He can even get a visit from Love Island presenter Maya Jama – who has been many times in the past – because of her relationship with City Star Ruben Dias.
What we know for sure is that O Beach will be packaged again this year with celebrities – it is always.