The profession of a football player - all the pros and cons

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

For now, no one will deny that football is a game watched by millions of people around the globe. In terms of emotionality and entertainment, this game ranks first among all sports in the world. In childhood, every boy at least once said: "My future profession is a football player!". But not everyone succeeded in fulfilling their dream. You will learn about how to become not only a yard, but also a world football star, and about those who succeeded, in our article.

Description of the profession of a football player

Contrary to common stereotypes, a footballer not only plays on the field and receives laurels. Before getting into professional sports, a boy from the age of 7 (or even earlier) trains at a football school, regularly travels to interregional competitions, devotes almost all his free time to this sport. Serious changes occur in an athlete at about 18 years old - then he gets into a professional team and moves to a football camp. Every day there are 2 training sessions (in the morning and in the evening), on weekends - friendly matches with other teams. Professionfootball player involves a strict diet and a he althy lifestyle - the rejection of alcohol and cigarettes.

Pros and cons

The obvious disadvantages of this sport include the lack of stability. If a player changes the club, then it is imperative to move. Permanent injuries, stress and pain accompany the athlete throughout his career. How useful is the profession of a football player? What are her advantages? Of course, this is a good pay, a prestigious profession and fame. But all football laurels go only to the most hardworking, strong and successful.

The path to the dream

To make a successful career in this most difficult and prestigious profession, a football player must go a long and long way from a youth school to a professional club. In football academies, breeders carefully monitor the success of young talents, note obvious talents. Young football players can be on good terms, but there is always an invisible rivalry between them. Usually a football career consists of stages of the children's, junior, youth, youth, national teams, and the most successful can get into the most elite football clubs in the world.

Salaries of football stars

Profession "football player" is associated in people with exorbitant earnings, the stereotype about which social networks and rumors have imposed on us. But in reality, the salaries are good for the players of national and world clubs, and members of the yard teams, who are undoubtedly more inworld than professional, often play for fun. For example, the Voronezh yard football league has only 4 divisions; Only players of the 1st division receive a salary from them - about one and a half thousand rubles per game. Football players of city provincial clubs receive from 50 to 110 thousand rubles. It is a completely different level in such teams of all-Russian scale as Zenit, Lokomotiv, Spartak. The salary of the top players of these clubs is from 5 to 7 million euros per year. But, of course, world-class football players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and others have the highest income. Below is a table of incomes of football stars in millions of euros/year.

football player	football club	fee (million euro/year
Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	18, 5
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	16, 5
Neymar	Barcelona	15, 5
Zlatan Ibrahimovic	PSG	15
Radamel Falcao	"Monaco"	14, 5
Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	14, 3
Sergio Aguero	Manchester City	14
Yaya Toure	Manchester City	13, 5
Robin van Persie	Manchester United	13, 2
Gareth Bale	Real Madrid	11, 7

Legend Lionel Messi

There are people whose life line truly inspires and makes you believe in yourself. The story of Lionel Messi is a clear example of what peaks any person can achieve in a football career. This story resounded all over the world. A simple boy from a poor family could become one of the best football players in the world! It is surprising that the young Lionel could forget about the profession of a football player altogether due to a congenital ailment - a lack of growth hormones. The boy's grandmother, who always believed in his success in football no matter what, took him to see Barcelona, who had previously been interested in the young talent, seeing his success in the game for the local River Plate club.

Barcelona sporting director Carles Rexach, seeing Messi in action, immediately offered him to sign a contract. If the famous football club had not paid for the treatment of Lionel, then his height would never have overcome the mark of 140 cm. There were both ups and downs in Messi's career. But despite this, at 22 he became the youngest team captain in the world, and in 2011 the Ekip newspaper named Lionel Messi the best athlete in the world. In football, no footballer has been awarded this title since 1998. At the moment, Lionel Messi successfully plays for the Barcelona team and is one of the greatest football players in the world. The story of a simple guy from a poor family,who has achieved unprecedented heights, is the motivation for all the boys of the world who dream of becoming a football player.