Are there Levels in Walking Football?

Having watched the documentary "Boot Dreams, Now or Never" on BBC, where it follows a group of young men, released from football academies, trying to restart their journey into a professional footballing career, it often spoke about the level of football they could achieve.

Clearly in England the Premier League is the pinnacle, with the highest level of skill and by far the greatest rewards. I'm sure all young men who want to be professional footballers aspire to achieve that dream but as we know, only a very small percentage ever do. In the documentary there was a guy who had been in the Leeds United academy from age seven to age nineteen, he clearly wanted a future in football but Leeds released and dropped him, without warning and without a go forward plan.

As shown throughout the documentary, to reach the pinnacle takes much more than skill alone. So even with the skills and talent, there must be a drive, an attitude and a willingness to sacrifice things that your peers take for granted. And to be honest, even with all of the above you still need luck and good fortune that something else, like injuries or circumstance, doesn't derail the plan.

So if you can't make the Premier League what is the level you can make?

For those that want to be professional footballers in England there is the pyramid from professional teams in the National League North and South, though the National League, the Division Leagues, to the Championship. Many levels of playing with each seen as a level up on the one below. On the radio there are frequent comments about he's a great player at that level of football, or, he has to prove himself at this level.

Even as a non-professional there are levels and levels of football, from Sunday pub sides to county and regional.

So does this apply to Walking Football? My thoughts on this to follow...