'A lot of people didn't believe it was a good move but I thought I am going see what I can do': Dexter Blackstock has no 悔いるs over quitting football as former striker 試みる／企てるs to revolutionise healthcare 産業

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Dexter Blackstock has gone from football to 製薬のs - and hopes to save lives, 削除する the cost of healthcare and even help change the perception of professional players.

Eyebrows were raised when striker Blackstock decided to やめる football two years ago at an age when many players still feel they have plenty left in the 戦車／タンク.

He says: 'I retired when I was 31, just turned, and had two years left at Rotherham. I didn't really like it and decided to take my chances with other things.

Dexter Blackstock ended his footballing career in 2017 and 手配中の，お尋ね者 to try different things

'明白に it was unusual and a lot of people didn't believe it was a good move but I thought I am going see what I can do.'

Those 'other things' were Blackstock's さまざまな 商売／仕事 利益／興味s which he had been working on in the background during what turned out to be the の近くにing years of his career.

Now it is making his 示す in the world of 薬／医学 rather than on the 得点する／非難する／２０-sheet that is his 焦点（を合わせる）.

In a link between Blackstock's old life and new one, a company he is closely associated with, UK Meds, now have their logo on the shirts and training gear of one of his former clubs after striking a 後援 取引，協定 to become one of Nottingham Forest's 公式の／役人 partners.

Blackstock played for Southampton, QPR, Nottingham Forest and Rotherham の中で others

Nottingham-based UK Meds, one of the countries 主要な online pha rmacies, was created by Blackstock's good friends, father and son Joe and Mason Soiza, and use the 最新の 科学（工学）技術 to dispense prescriptions remotely.

Joe and Mason encouraged Blackstock, 33, to think outside the box and look for 適切な時期s outside football, 特に in the 製薬の 部門.

That led Blackstock, who also counts Southampton and QPR の中で his former clubs, to start MediConnect with a 見解（をとる） to revolutionising the world of 薬／医学.

Using blockchain 科学（工学）技術, the 目的（とする） of MediConnect is to join all the parties 伴う／関わるd in the buying and 配当 of 医薬 online - 製造業者, 兵たん業務 company, 卸売業者, GP, pharmacy and 患者 - on one 壇・綱領・公約 bringing greater cohesion and 安全 to the 過程 for all 伴う／関わるd.

Blackstock is ひどく 伴う／関わるd with online pharmacy UK Meds and is happy in his new career

UK Meds, which has a 使用者-base of 200,000 people, is 開拓するing the 転換 to blockchain by becoming the first company to 調印する up to use MediConnect's services.

'MediConnect is 基本的に changing the who le way that 製薬のs will be sold in the country,' Blackstock explained.

'We hope to change a system that has been in place for years. As online pharmacies become more ありふれた we are 供給するing a 壇・綱領・公約 to 保護（する）／緊急輸入制限 everybody 伴う／関わるd in the 過程 of 供給（する）ing and using 医薬.

'If you are buying you can feel 安全な knowing the pharmacy is using our 壇・綱領・公約. The 麻薬s are authentic, 港／避難所't been ordered from 多重の different sources and the doctor has the 権利 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） before they 定める／命ずる.

'The long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 目的（とする） is to make MediConnect the gold 基準 in the UK so every pharmacy has to use the 壇・綱領・公約.

'If everybody in hospitals, online, offline, was tuned into it they would all have their own unique identifier.

'That would mean you couldn't 乱用 麻薬s. 偽造の 麻薬s wouldn't get to you because they would be stopped along the 供給（する） chain.

'Human error would be eradicated. People die every day because of human error or 欠如（する） of （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）. This would save billions of 続けざまに猛撃するs from wastage, 麻薬 解任する, things like that.

'結局 we want to have the whole country using MediConnect. We are in 初期の 会談 with the NHS but, for now, we are 焦点（を合わせる）ing on the online 味方する.'

The striker hopes blockchain can transform way the 製薬の 産業 is run in the UK

The MediConnect 壇・綱領・公約 is 現在／一般に 存在 built. Blackstock and his team are in the crowdfunding 行う／開催する／段階 which in the 事例／患者 of MediConnect is called an ICO (初期の coin 申し込む／申し出ing) rather than an IPO (初期の public 申し込む／申し出ing).

Those who 投資する will get cryptocurrency in 交流 for their かかわり合いs which they can use later on to make online 購入（する）s.

'It is a 抱擁する 事業／計画（する）,' says Blackstock, who is doing his bit to make people think 異なって about footballers.

'Hopefully I'm helping change the image people have of the stereotypical footballer,' Blackstock says. 'There is a perception that footballers have no transferable 技術s, are stupid, get paid lots of money, waste it and many 結局最後にはーなる broke.'

Blackstock played 350 league games in his career and his happy with what he did on the pitch

And with such big 計画（する）s it is no surprise that wondering what he has left behind has barely entered Blackstock's mind.

'Do I 行方不明になる football? No, no,' he said.

'When I retired I just thought "I don't want to do this anymore". Because it was my 決定／判定勝ち（する） to retire, I never looked 支援する.

'I've never really thought 'I wish I was playing this Saturday.' I played enough - 350 league games. How many more do I want?'