CHAMPIONS LEAGUE icon Marek Hamsik present runs a chickenhearted workplace and a zoo.
The Napoli fable made 520 appearances for the nine with his distinctive mohawk haircut.
But since hanging up his boots a year-and-a-half agone pursuing a spell astatine Turkish broadside Trabzonspor, Hamsik balances being Slovakia's adjunct manager and his emotion for farming.
Alongside his woman Martina and their 3 kids, the 37-year-old looks aft chickens and has tiny zoo with ferrets and turtles successful his homeland.
Hamsik told Sport24: "It's a comparatively caller hobby of ours. It each started successful April past twelvemonth during Easter, erstwhile we ordered hatching eggs, from which we aboriginal hatched small chicks.
"During that time, we managed to acceptable up and equip the chickenhearted coop.
"The coop is custom-made. It is much similar a edifice for chickens with built-in heating and ventilation, but besides automatic doors that unfastened successful the greeting truthful that we don't person to get up and cheque connected them.
"It is genuinely luxurious and the chickens are possibly adjacent amended cared for than we are.
"To date, we person 29 of them, and they laic astir 2 twelve eggs a day.
"We person a batch of them and I'm already reasoning astir opening a store arsenic I instrumentality attraction of the chickenhearted coop with pleasure."
Hamsik admitted it was his wife's thought to commencement the workplace and they present person eggs for meal everyday.
On their carnal kingdom, the erstwhile midfielder revealed: "Yes, it was her idea. She is simply a large carnal person successful general, which she passed connected to the full family.
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"If we could, we would person an carnal structure oregon a tiny zoo astatine home.
"Although we really already person one, since we support 3 dogs, a cat, the chickens, 2 turtles, six guinea pigs and 2 ferrets.
"We besides had 2 roosters that hatched with america and we raised them ourselves, but since they are the aforesaid humor arsenic the chickens, they couldn't enactment with us."
Away from the animals, Hamsik opened a winery with his dada Richard and helium boasts an awesome car postulation that includes a Mustang and a Ferrari.