The new original Peacock dating series Love Undercover follows five successful professional footballers who go undercover as ordinary men looking for love, without the baggage that comes with being wealthy and famous. Three of the soccer stars who lead the new series recently sat down with ET's Nischelle Turner to dish on the series, and their past challenges looking for love. Amsterdam native Ryan Babel, English footballer Lloyd Jones and Sebastián Fassi of Mexico -- who plays as a goalkeeper for San Fernando in Spain -- all opened up about the obstacles they've faced when it comes to romance and keeping a relationship afloat during their careers.
"Obviously, like, for me, I've played in five different countries in maybe 12 to 13 years...
[and] in Mexico I played in five different cities," Fassi explained. "At this point in my life, I'm stable. I'm living in Madrid, in Spain, so I'm actually now in a different situation.
But playing is like really, really hard, because you [either] do long-distance relationship or you move in with me, you know?" "Sometimes [they] are not ready to move in but you don't wanna break up so it's hard, because she has to leave everything," Fassi added. "She has to leave her life on the side and just focus on you. So that's not really easy.
" Fassi explained that it isn't something "we are asking for," but rather, simply, "it's my job." "I've been doing this since I'm 8 years old, I'm getting paid really well, it's the only thing that I love to do.