Soccer Player: Hard Way To The Stars
Did you know that Lionel Messi, the highest-paid soccer player, earns about 111 million dollars per year? He gains a huge sum of money every year just by playing a sport. Lionel Messi is also known as the best footballer in the world, at the moment. He has inspired millions of children. The world isn't going crazy about the enormous wages soccer players, also known as footballers for Europeans, receive every year. They deserve their salaries because they make sacrifices early in order to fulfill their dream, their career also ends at a young age, and they are superstars around the world bringing advertisement revenues.
Walter Ellis, a journalist, and commentator based in France says soccer players are gifted entertainers whose careers have ended by the time they are 35. They aren't worth 200,000 dollars a week because they aren't superstars like Mick Jagger. However, soccer players are inspirations for the youth that watches their city or even their country in a championship. They show great examples of leadership, sportsmanship, and fair play. They are important role models for the children who aspire to, one day, play the beautiful game as a profession. They are superstars because they manage to attract thousands of people to watch ninety minutes of professionals kicking a ball. They are superstars because they have enormous pressure on everything they lay a foot on the field. A superstar is esteemed for an exceptional talent which is for a footballer to be able to overcome the pressure and be one of the best at the beautiful game. According to Jonny Northeast, head of sports science, players have to train really hard to fulfill their soccer dreams. They have to maintain certain diets to have enough energy when game-time approaches. They can burn up to a thousand calories per game. They obviously deserve their salary because of the professionalism and hard work they give daily.
To make it to the top, footballers need to start making sacrifices at an early age to achieve their potential. Jason Severiano Lampkin, a former pro soccer player, claims that just like a businessman, you need countless hours of studying to become a pro soccer player but unlike them, your studying takes place on the field as training. It's not everyone who made it to the top, that was born with a natural talent for the sport. Some of them started training every morning and making sacrifices at the early age of 10. He also says that a soccer player's career starts at a young age, but also ends early when they aren't competitive enough anymore. A footballer can be replaced at any time if their team finds someone better than them. There is no guarantee that you will always have a workplace. Sometimes, to be one of the best, children had to change countries to have better training and a chance to become a professional. It's an enormous sacrifice to make without knowing that you will make it to the top one day. Their high income can be seen as life insurance because they won't make any money when their career ends. In order to retire at the young age of 35, you usually need a lot of money and that is why they deserve their salaries.
People would pay a lot to watch their favorite footballer play the beautiful game. According to David Conn, an author for The Guardian, in the 2016-2017 season, The Premier League records 14,730 billion-dollar deals. The Premier League is a soccer league in England, where all the biggest cities in the country play against each other. There is more than four-division and at the end of the season, the best team is promoted to a higher league in the country to eventually play in the famous Premier League. It is also known as the best soccer league in the world. Every game, stadiums are filled with adults and children supporting their idols playing soccer. The Premier League attracts humongous television revenues. Football club owners are in a bidding war to attract the best players in the world in order to have an even more competitive team in order to earn bigger revenues. A player's wages take that into account because they deserve a part of the money their owners receive. Obviously, the bigger the television revenues are the higher their salaries are because the owners can afford it. The world isn't going crazy with the footballers' salaries because they draw a lot of money in their owner's pockets.
In conclusion, the world isn't going crazy about the money soccer players acquire. They fairly deserve it for the professionalism and hard work they give daily the sacrifices they make at an early age, and the revenues they attract. Furthermore, they could get transferred, traded, or even lose their job without any insurance. The risk is really high in the sports industry but when it pays off, you often make incredible amounts of money. In the future, I predict that salaries will keep increasing because of inflation. Salaries have always increased since the start of soccer. It won't stop because football will become even more popular and with the inflation, the salaries will continue to go up
