The annual salary of the president of the United States of America is $ 400,000. The monthly salary of Lionel Messi is only $ 9.5 million, meaning that Messi earns in less than a week what the president of the United States earns during his four-year term.
The first player to collect money for a football game was in 1885, when players were officially allowed to pay for football, but the players' wages were no higher than any other profession, and it is enough to say that the player's average income was in 1957 It was £ 1,600, equivalent to 75,000 pounds, a small number that some players earn in a few days.
The price of astronauts is no exception. The player is said to be cheap, if he sells from one club to another for less than 50 million euros, for example, a large sum that can do much today. 1938 to discuss the big deal for Brian Jones, who moved from Wolverhampton to Arsenal for £ 14,000.
February 20, 1992 is the defining day in the history of modern football and its trend towards capitalism when the English Premiership or Premier League was announced as an independent company working in association with the FA. After the great suffering of English clubs of weak material potential.
The famous Sky network offered 191 million pounds for exclusive broadcast rights for five years, to be the first crazy amount to enter the world of football, and to disguise the beads of the bead then, as companies competed for deals and contracts monopoly, was a fuel This game was triggered, infecting the rest of Europe, and then all over the world, albeit at a lower rate than the old continent.
These contracts and large funds have provided cash to the clubs, making them able to lure the player they want, and starting bids for the best players, to reach fantastic numbers, although the Brazilian deal Denilson in 1998 caused a sensation, after moving from Sao Paulo to Real The Spanish club Betis, for € 21.5 million, has increased ten times to 222 million euros in the transfer of fellow Neymar from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain French.
These large amounts and the huge numbers have led the players to ask for more money for wearing a particular club shirt, in addition to the introductions of contracts, advertising returns and sponsorship deals, which made the footballer among the rich.
According to sports journalist Hani Sukkar in the interview, "." that these numbers of transactions and wages of players exceeded the limits of reasonable, and compared with the budgets of some countries, but there are some players rejected such things as Polish player Cuba, who said that the salary of a football player must equal the salary of firefighter .
The life of a footballer is no longer his property, and they are only bound by the rules and instructions to make money, which the Welshman Gareth Bell said when he said that players became like machines, and their lives were not theirs.
"The European Union has tried to control this through the Clean Money Act, but the clubs have found several ways to evade this law, as Paris Saint-Germain did. It entered a Qatari company and bought Neymar. The French club's financial accounts remained clean, Neymar and Mbabi Worth 400 million euros, and nobody was punished Paris Saint-Germain did not happen anything.
"The clubs will continue to deal with EU rules. The next danger is the increasing pressure on the players. The season was two or three games, but now there are many championships. The 32-team tournament, the UEFA Europa League, and the World Cup will be 48 teams, all of which increase the number of games on the player and pressure him, and no one cares about being human beings and not machines.
"I think the footballer deserves a higher amount than others, because he is under a lot of pressure in his life, his career is short and he will look for another career after his career. I think controlling the wages and deals of the players has become very difficult, Especially as the players have become aware that they are the reason for the large sums of money, so they see that they have the right to get part of these funds.
There is no doubt that football is very popular, and the Russian World Cup in 2018 more than half the population of the globe, the real engine of this game, but the repercussions of the wages of players and huge deals come to the masses of the ball, the prices of tickets more than it was, Encrypted channels paid, to become a football game for the rich after they have been for decades a poor sport.
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