Bling Bling for Beckham.
Would you ever pay someone 250 million dollars to play soccer for 5 years? No? Well lets ask the L.A. Galaxy of the Major League Soccer (MLS is an American soccer league) . They are paying David Beckham to play soccer for that exact amount. He is now the highest paid athlete in the world. The next guy under him is some baseball player making 25 million a season (I'd bother getting his name, but its baseball...who cares?). I wonder whats going to happen when the soccer league folds....i mean does the entire soccer league even make that kind of money? Cause the last time i checked U.S.A and soccer weren't in the same sentence.
2 comments:
Great post... I especially like the part about USA and soccer not being in teh same sentence. SO true. This league is gonna fold. But then again, you never know... somehow the WNBA still exists.
common misconception, check the salary figures again. he only makes 10 mil. in base salary - the rest is in incentives such as endorsements. he is EXPECTED to be able to make 250 mil. over the course of five years, but less than two-fifths of that will be in salary. some media hack latched onto his estimated earnings for the next five years and that has become the figure that everyone is talking about. the mls isn't on the hook for all of it. (and by the way, maple leaf sports and entertainment now owns a team. they could definately pay that salary.)
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