Football comes after crypto in today’s world has the sports has engulfed and captured lots of attention and truth be told it will capture more. Not only is the game an entertaining one, but it is also a sport that everyone could easily relate to. In the world, today, its easily the most popular sports and probably the most lucrative of all sports in the world.
Earlier today the Twitter erupted when Gary Lineker (former England captain) announced his new five-year deal with BBC, and he took a massive pay cut of 23%. It resulted in a lot of reaction online as people were both concerned for Lineker while others were curious about how much he earns in the first place for him to have taken such a deal.
Well, his reason was simply that he loves working with the BBC. A lot of people have done far more than this all because they love a jib but on whether Lineker was being honest with his reply, that is a story for another day. The fact remains that money is been thrown around in the game of football and being associated with it alone will make you rich or being able to fend for yourself in no time.
To make the figures more distinctively clear, Lineker earns 1.75 million before the pay cut but putting that into effect the terms of the new deal, his new figures stand around 1.35 million pounds. That is still big money to pay a pundit of course but it shows the limitless potential football has offered the world.
Although deals differ for pundits as some are just freelancers and might earn on pay per view while some pundits earn their full money regardless of how many appearances they make because they are on pro-rata contracts. Ex gunners’ strikers, Henry remains the highest earner during his time as a pundit as it was reported that he was earning 4 million pounds on a yearly basis.
They are more associated crafts that are very needed within the game. Lately, a lot of clubs as taken the responsibility of coaches doing the signing of players to allow them to fully focus on the task of their team doing well. Clubs like Chelsea, Leicester City, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint Germain, Barcelona etc. has employed business-minded personnel to be troubled with getting of players to improve the team.
While some call them the transfer negotiators, they are above that as they do more than negotiating a business deal. Chelsea for example has a lady with which many know as the iron lady in charge of transfers, negotiations and of course contract offers. These are normal people which field has got nothing to do with sports per se but as the football game grows, it encompasses more people/thing from an entirely different field/industry.
You could be involved in football directly through cryptocurrencies as numerous football teams have started having their own fans tokens through the help of socios.com. socios.com might not ring a bell but Chillz does, and they are both the same thing. A few days ago, while watching a football match with which Barcelona was at home, the Chillz and socios.com logo was showing on their stadium electronic sideboard.
It shows how far football has spread its wings. Now footballing decision regarding a team could be made as an owner of a fan coin. This coin gives one voting right on key club decisions while also making the team rich in the process as they become more scares thereby leading to a shoot in value of the tokens. All last week, the chillz token was one of the trending coins as its value rise beyond the comprehension of everyone, and it has stayed that way till now.
Gone are the days where all Nigerians believe that being a footballer was the only way to tap from the vast wealth of football. We know better in this age as some Nigerians who are not footballers have made more money from football than the people who are football players themselves. Structures such as the likes of football betting have opened another wealth making money opportunity for the Nigerian youths whose dream of becoming a professional footballer did not come through.
They are a more notable form of being part of the sports than betting, but the reward is quite lucrative as playing the game itself. While being a coach or a referee is also great, but they are deeper and could be likened to being a footballer themselves as they have a direct impact on the direction of the game, unlike the earlier mention.
Other professions that don’t really have a direct impact on the beautiful game are;
1. Transfer Agents
2. Game developer
3. Sports analyst
4. Interviewer
5. footballer clips compiler on YouTube
6. Selling of football accessories such as boots, kits etc.
These are noble professions that could set up one for life and yet you might posses no skills to make such money being a footballer. Although based on the skill’s you possess, being a footballer will prove more lucrative than most if not all. Some tough decisions remain to be made like that of either chasing the money or glory.
In recent times, most Brazilian players have been known to chase money instead of playing for passion and their reasons for this is valid as most come from a very poor background. Brazil a devolving country like Nigeria have a lot of stars in their arsenal looking to break out and hoping to be snapped up by any club in Europe. That is the beginning of things becoming better.
According to HULK, he said that most people bashed him and Oscar due to their decision to leave the limelight at the very peak of their career and go after money. He said some people have no idea where they are coming and if they do, they will respect their decisions instead of labelling them with bad names.
Thankfully, times have changed and people without deep knowledge of this game could boost of making it from the sport too as the game further develops.
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