https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd83ADfMePK/ 25 May 2022 musonda: Goodbye @ChelseaFc thank you for everything. https://i.imgur.com/SvjZNIe.jpg PUBLIC STATEMENT, ANNOUNCING, LEAVING CHELSEA AFTER 10 YEARS. This is my farewell letter on what has been an incredible 10 years dating back to 2012. A decade gone, a rollercoaster of emotions. Four years without football, free agent. What next? Football always & creating an inspirational world. https://i.imgur.com/DGHPAWr.jpg Seems like yesterday I was arriving at Cobham, and that Chelsea Football Club welcomed me and my family to my new home, it has now been 10 years since that day, and today as the season ends, that journey has come to an end. I had the privilege of being part of, and being able to learn in such an incredible organisation in world football, and in the process had the opportunity of winning all that was possible at youth level within the club and country playing a part of an important chapter at Cobham, and more importantly doing so while growing as a person. From the ages of fifteen until twenty-one, I worked extremely hard to make my professional debut at Chelsea, at a time in which it was extremely difficult to do so, and so I will always be thankful for the opportunity to have been able to play at the Bridge wearing the blue shirt, which is never a given or should never be taken for granted, particularly from where I come from. https://i.imgur.com/WlYbHxy.jpg Looking back on it, I took the decision to leave Belgium for my personal development as it was the right time to do so to keep progressing. Leaving for a new country so young is always a challenge, leaving in the hopes of making it and breaking through in a world class club is equally always a challenge, and such a feat only multiplies for youngsters when that club is Chelsea Football Club, the well oiled machine that is built on winning, and only winning. But such as any passionate and dedicated athlete should, I live for challenges, and never shy away from them because life is too short not to follow our dreams through fear of failure or in the hopes of finding an easier path, and so I would do it all over again without hesitation. In all honesty, I would be lying if I said that I thought I would be leaving this way, and even more so if I thought that I would go four years without playing football after my knee injury. The people who know me, know how much football has meant to me since I started playing from the ages of five, and for me not to be able to play for four years, has been heartbreaking. There is no other way to put it, it's been soul wrenching. Particularly because football is the only thing that I perhaps love more or as much as my family, or because I worked so hard the first six years at the club for one goal which was always to play for Chelsea, never wanting, demanding to leave partly because I really believed I could and would until the last day, the moment that sums up the best what Chelsea meant to me and the work I had to do to get there is how emotional I was to score on my debut. https://i.imgur.com/4D1xPbD.jpg During those years of hard work, sacrifice and dedication, I fell in love with the club, and the fans, people always say Chelsea fans don't make noise in the stadium, but I can assure you, the fans are amongst the best in the world, and they have been unbelievable with me always, which is rare for a player who hasn't even started more than once, honestly. You've always loved me, up until this day, and that helped me through my injury to keep on keeping on and training. I will never forget you Chelsea Fans, and will always love you from the bottom of my heart, I wish I could have done more for you but that is the nature of life. I want to thank Adi Vivaesh, the late Dermot Drummy, and Joe Edwards, for developing me. I want to thank Antonio Conte, for giving me an opportunity to fulfil a dream. I want to thank all the teammates I had along the way, at youth level and in the first team, all of those who reached out when I was injured too. Sport is all about camaraderie, and pushing ourselves to better one another, we can't achieve anything without our teammates and opponents. I'm extremely proud of all the boys I grew up with that are playing and representing the academy for Chelsea, Andreas, Rueb, Reece, Mase, Trevor and across England and Europe at several levels, Tammy, Jeremie, Ake, Ola, Fikayo, Dion Conroy, Houghton, Swifty, Baker, Marc Guehi, T Lamptey, Billy, Jay Da Silva, Mukhtar, Wright... and many more. https://i.imgur.com/7st6owP.jpg I want to thank my mum and dad; my dad for driving me and brothers every morning to practice and picking us up, my mum for travelling to all my games, even when we played in Thailand or Australia for a friendly you would be there, if we won you would be there, if we lost, If it was raining or sunny, you would be there. Thanks to my brothers for being there for me. I definitely wouldn't be here without you guys. We win and lose together. You can hold your heads up mum and dad for the incredible job you guys have done. I'm sorry I couldn't get this one over the line, I love you more than anything and I know you do too. I want to thank physios Stu Vaughn and Stu Sullivan, for the hours spent rehabbing me and taking care of me in the difficult moments. https://i.imgur.com/MTejhQ5.jpg I will always carry the incredible memories with me, especially because I lived them as a young boy, they will always be a part of my teenage life, most kids spend that time in school, I was lucky enough to be morning, day and and night at Cobham playing football. What the future in football holds or where, still is unknown but what I do know is that while being injured I discovered that my mental strength is my fortitude, not talent. Another thing that's for certain, is I will be back playing this season. I never stopped rehabbing, believing, even if that meant training alone for three out of these last four years, I'm extremely proud of that, and not giving up in life in general having gone through extreme testing moments of resilience and mental health. It would be an incredible achievement in itself to return to the field after four years without playing football having been given less than twenty percent odds of ever playing again at the top flight. https://i.imgur.com/s512bOm.jpg Aside from football having been through what I've been through, I would like to create a world that can inspire, educate and bring happiness to the next generation, as well as people all around the world of all ages to never give up, believe, because that's what life is about. Life is beautiful, sport is beautiful, it brings many of us our worst days and best days, playing as an athlete, supporting as a fan... Often people forget how beautiful sport really is, and I'm thankful and appreciative of all the moments, in fact the reason you may be reading this and the only reason we may be connected or you may know of me is through sport, and that's incredible, that so many people are connected through the power of sports and it's stories, it's highs and it's lows. I have learned so much from my idols along the way in different sports, on how to keep on going always and have a bigger perspective on life. Not to be sad because it's the end but appreciate that it happened. I had a chance to be here, whether small or big doesn't really matter, whether I got injured or not, does not really matter, what matters is that I had the opportunity to be here and that I tried as best as I could. I'm thankful for the journey and would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart at Chelsea Football Club, and wish all best to the players and it's fans. - Charly https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd89cGyAznK/ (影片) musonda: Thank You Chelsea for ten incredible years. -- Hoddle: 'Matthew will be sitting up there looking down now and loving Chelsea being winners. He'll just love Chelsea winning.' --

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