An important profession - kicking a ball for millions

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The Russian national football team lost without a chance at home in two friendly (as head coach Stanislav Cherchesov likes to say - test) matches. First, the Brazilian national team - 0: 3, and then France - 1: 3. However, such results, it seems, will not greatly upset our players. Since at the upcoming world championship in two and a half months - the Russian national team, which has the lowest FIFA rating of all the participants (63rd line, below Panama, Cape Verde, Burkina Faso) will definitely enter the Top 10 in terms of salaries … And if we take the salaries of foreign players, then the domestic league is completely close to the Top 5.

Paredes receives almost a million rubles a day. Dziuba - about 700 thousand

Several Internet resources have recently published information about the income of footballers playing in the Russian Premier League. As expected, there are four players from Zenit St. Petersburg in the top 10. And in fact there are five, since Artem Dziuba is now playing for Arsenal Tula on loan and at the end of the season he will almost certainly return to the city on the Neva. The figures featured in the ranking are the players' guaranteed annual income in millions of euros, which includes a salary and a signature bonus (divided by the number of years in the contract).

For example, the highest paid Russian footballer, the already mentioned Artyom Dziuba, has an annual salary of 3 million euros, for signing a five-year contract with Zenit, he received a bonus of 3 million euros. 3 million salary + 600 thousand annual bonus - you get 3.6 million euros. Let me remind you that the figures do not include bonuses accrued based on the results of performances. The net income of the players is shown after taxes.

The highest paid player in the Premier League, who has golden legs, is Argentine midfielder Leandro Paredes. His annual salary is 5 million euros. This is followed by the defender of the capital "Lokomotiv" Croat Vedran Corluka with a salary of 4.5 million euros. Closes the top three, another Balkan footballer, Zenit defender Serb Branislav Ivanovic - 4.1 million euros. Artem Dziuba, with his “pitiful” 3.6 million euros, is in sixth place in the overall rating.

Simple arithmetic, not even mathematical calculation shows that Paredes receives (the word earns is clearly not suitable here) 968 493 rubles! Dziuba has 690,100 rubles, another glorious representative of the Northern capital, Alexander Kokorin, has 639,205 rubles (he has a total of 3.3 million euros a year). If someone does not understand, let us explain - this is a salary for one day!

Continuing the lessons of arithmetic, it is not difficult to calculate how long it takes for the footballers of the Russian Premier League to receive any salary of the average domestic worker. Take the medical profession, for example. And since in the list of salaries most of all appear representatives of "Zenith", then we will consider the income of doctors of this city. According to official statistics, this year their average salary is 99,000 rubles. Although this figure is from the evil one. What is the actual situation with medicine in this city "SP" has already reported. But even if we take the official data, Dziuba will receive a doctor's salary in 203 minutes! In less than two and a half matches! Alexander Kokorin - in 222 minutes, and the "brilliant and incomparable" South American Paredes, whose team is already in fifth place in the domestic championship - in 146 minutes. In fact, in one and a half matches!

The average salary of a Russian footballer is equal to the salary of 124 doctors in St. Petersburg

The further is even more fun. Someone, even from very advanced football fans, will probably wrinkle their foreheads to remember, for example, such a football player as Zenit player Viktor Fayzulin, who, due to injury (God bless him!) Has not played for almost three years, but has salary of 2.2 million euros. Incomprehensible Magomed Ozdoev - 2 million euros. Does anyone remember such footballers as Artur Yusupov and Alan Kasaev with their 2 and 1, 9 million euros, respectively?

In the ranking of RFPL salaries, those who receive more than 1.5 million euros, 68 footballers - 36 foreign players and 32 domestic ones (while the rating does not include our best footballer Alexander Golovina from CSKA). So, based on this list, the average salary for a legionnaire is 2.4 million euros per year, for a Russian citizen - 2.1 million euros per year.

Once again, taking up arithmetic, we find out that in rubles the average salary of a Russian footballer from this list is (at the euro rate of 70 rubles) 147,000,000 (one hundred forty-seven million) rubles a year! Or 12,250,000 per month! And it is equal to the official salary of 124 doctors of the highest qualification in St. Petersburg!

We are "ripped", and the money goes

But back to the national team. Of course, the last rivals of Cherchesov's team were from the top category. Moreover, according to experts and bookmakers, the French and Brazilians, along with the Germans and Spaniards, are the main contenders for victory at the 2018 World Cup. Losing to such teams, it seems, is not a shame. But the point is not even that the game on our side was mediocre, and the rivals did not particularly resist. Not that even the main line-up is incomprehensible and much, much more. And the fact is that our football does not correspond at all to the economic sports model built all over the world (and not only). Our footballers do not earn, but receive. Unfounded. Dozens of times higher salaries are completely inconsistent with their skills. This applies to both Russians and legionnaires.

Take, for example, the national teams of Sweden, Iceland, Holland, Switzerland, Croatia (the list goes on for a long time), they will be stronger than the Russians. However, their salaries are even lower than in many teams in the Russian First League (FNL).

If people in other championships want to make money, they tear their veins and leave for the top five national championships. We do not need to strain too much. Moreover, the amount of the contract in the clubs usually does not depend on the final result of the team. The example of the same Pogrebnyak, who received 2 million euros at Dynamo and played there at most 2.5 matches, is indicative. Therefore, it is not necessary to "steam" too much. We are “torn” into one wicket, but money in the club is still dripping.

But doctors have to "take a steam bath". And not at the same rate to earn the money that the same Paredes, Dziuba, Kokorin or Tarasov will receive for part-time work.