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It doesn’t matter
Lionel Messi is said to have earned around 117.5 million euros in Paris last year, according to Forbes. The fact that the Argentine is number two of the best-earning athletes behind Cristiano Ronaldo (123.9 million) and ahead of Kylian Mbappe (108.4 million) makes for a nice ranking, but is in fact only one thing: perverse.
It shows how aloof and unworldly top football is. The three dribbling sheik testimonials are just the tip of the iceberg. Because even away from the Middle East cash, sums are bubbling up in Europe’s leagues, which in times of child poverty (around 20 million in the EU), a shortage of housing, a lack of care and so on, lack any social reason. In this respect, the choice of club is completely irrelevant.
core values
Had I had the choice to meet Pele and Maradona (when I was alive) or Messi and Ronaldo, I would have always chosen the former. That has to do with my age. Unlike me, a Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo evoke much greater emotions in younger people than I am. These are also part of the advertising value that gives them these crazy millions of dollars.
When great athletes keep babbling about giving something back to the younger generation, then it does. It doesn’t have to be Real Madrid if it’s no longer good enough in terms of sport. Prove that with you, even smaller clubs with full funds can achieve great things. But please not somewhere in the desert in front of half-empty ranks.
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