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 * Are footballers paid a lot of money in your country? If so, is this fair? **

Ellen, Oda, Heidi & Kosalai - Norway
==**The salaries in Norway are probably a little too high compared to what people are willing to pay to watch football here. But if you compare the salaries of the well-payed footballers in Norway to the most well-payed players in your countries you would most probably say that they earn next to nothing.**== ==**Some of our players have an education in addition, and it's mostly women. 34,6 percent of the women have a higher education on the side, while 8/10 male footballplayers did not continue their education after high school.**== ==**One thing that is important to remember is that the players have worked quite hard to make it to the top, and have put a lot at risk to achieve their goals. They have taken the risk to give football all they've got and stopped their education and possibly neglected their family a bit. So it's wrong to say that their salaries are compeletely undeserved. But doctors and lawyers do more for the community** and it would be more ideal if the salaries were more even among those jobs.==

Heather, England:
== I agree, I think a football player may have talent at playing football but someone like a doctor will have a better education. Also in england if you want to have a certain jobs you have to have certain qualifications, so if the dotcor wanted to get a different job they could because they have lots of qualifications. But if a footballer wants to get a different job they usually don't have many qualifications so they can't. And I agree about other professions like singers and actors that get paid millions for just singing and they they go and act stupidly. Like footballers sometimes get quite aggresive when they play and can be violent, so they get paid to do this 'job' of playing football and sometimes they don't even do it properly. Do footballers ever act stupid in your country like being violent? ==

//Karolina, Norway://
=== I agree that football players are paid too much, but this is the profession everyone can choose. Therefore when you decide to choose good education instead of playing football you are convinced about how much will you get paid. The same applies actors and singers, they get huge salaries for just singing or playing in front of cameras, some of them even can't do their work professionaly, but they still receive millions. In Norway footballers have pretty fair salary compared to people with high education, so I would say that it depends on how good you are, and what do you care about: high salary or good education? I think that a football player does not become smarter by playing football...:) ===

Sofie, Denmark:
== Definetely. I personally think that Doctors should earn more then footballers, becuase they work so much more, almost 24/7. and compared to a footballer, that maybe "works" 90 minutes 3 times a week? That is not fair, at all! If I could decide over the saleries given, I would give more to the Doctors then the footballers. ==

By Heather, England:
== I don't know lots about football but I know that football players are also paid a lot in England, and how much they are paid also depends on what team they are from and how good they have played in the past. I don't think this is fair because they earn so much for just playing a sport and people who have jobs like being a doctor don't earn as much. I don't think it's fair that people who save lives every day should earn less than people who play a sport. Are there any jobs in your country that you think should earn more than a footballer should? Why? ==

By Wandrille, France :
=The salary of a footballer is 40 000€ a month in France. (Much more than a solicitor !)= =I think it's not fair because football is only a game and because to be a footballer does not ask for studies. So it's not good that footballers wins more a graduate people. =

By Sofie & Tanja, Denmark:
==I agree with you. In Denmark, the salery is different. It depends on where you come from (what team) and how good you are. Not every footballplayer is paid as much as others. ==

**Alexander Farnerud** is paid a salary about 60000 Euro a month.
= By Wandrille, France : = = Yes in France also we have it, The professional footballers is the best paid to the world as David beckham : 90 000€ a day... = =There are clubs of football, who are for the pleasure and competitions regionals where the players are not or little paid. On the contrary, they win prizes, rewards... = =Do you think it's fair ?? I think i'ts not fair because football is only a game and because to be a footballer does not ask for studies. So it's not good that footballers wins more a graduate people. = =What's your name ?? =

My name is Sofie. I just forgot to write it before.
==I do not think it's fair no. But I really don't know alot about football. I just don't think that they need to make such big differences between footballplayers. I know there are much better players in the international clubs, but the players in the nationals are fighing just as much as the "famous" are. == ==And as you pointed out, it does not require an education to become a footballplayer, so I actully think they should be paid the same amount money, as a normal person is. ==

I do not see what to say about the other this...
=**By Katja, Stefanie & Anna-Lena, Deutschland : **=

Let’s have a closer look at professional soccer for example! There, every player has a market value, which means, the club who wants to buy the player has to pay a definite sum to the current club!
===There are loads of statistics ( [|www.transfermarkt.de] ) covering all the soccer players in the world. These statistics tell you the income and the current market value of individual players and also the expenditure and revenue of their clubs.===

The players are like cars constantly changing their owners. And there is a constant haggling over price and they are sold as soon as their owner is not satisfied with their performance.
===Professional soccer is a million dollar business, where loyalty and local ties are no longer relevant. Today a team does not consist of eleven friends, but of eleven individuals who are only thinking on their own advantage and benefit. Sometimes they work better together and sometimes worse. Here again money plays an important role! If a team does not satisfy the expectations of the bosses, the coach is often discharged out of fear that the market value of the players could fall and the revenue might not cover the expenses.=== ===National and international competitions are also determined by money. The players get a certain amount of money if they reach the next round in a competition. Examples show this also in our country. There is money for the winner of the German Championship, for reaching the next round of the Champions League and for the qualification for the European Championship and for the World Championship. After the successful qualification the German Soccer Federation paid each player in the German national team 20,000 Euros per game in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.===

As a conclusion we can say, that money has always ruled the sport, still does it and will always rule the sport!
By Solenn, France :

Real Madrid will have achieve the four largest transfer in history : Ronaldo ( 94 M ) Zidane ( 75 M ) Kaka ( 65 M ) and Figo ( 61 M ).
[|( -> Article Ronaldo )]

<span style="color: #009eff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">By Marjorie, France : I <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">put just one example that is not about football but Formula 1. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">In 2007, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">the most winning driver will be Fernando Alonso with 40 million. The double world champion Kimi Raikkonen will outperform with $ 27 million and Jenson Button with 22 million a year.
 * ~ **Names** ||~ **<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal;">annual salaries in 2010** ||~ **Salairies in 2009** ||~  ||
 * < 1. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) ||< 30 Million € ||< 16 Million € ||<  ||
 * < 2. Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) ||< 16 Million € ||< 18 Million € ||<  ||
 * < 3. Felipe Massa (Ferrari) ||< 14 Million € ||< 22 Million € ||<  ||
 * < 4. Jenson Button (McLaren) ||< 9 Million € ||< 5 Million € ||<  ||
 * < 5. Michael Schumacher (Mercedes) ||< 8 Million € ||< absent ||<  ||
 * < 6. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) ||< 8 Million € ||< 8,5 Million € ||<  ||
 * < 7. Robert Kubica (Renault) ||< 7,5 Million € ||< 4,5 Million € ||<  ||
 * < 8. Rubens Barrichello (Williams) ||< 5,5 Million € ||< 1 Million € ||

Heather, England: I really don't think it's fair that racing drivers get paid that much because to earn 30 million euros a year for driving a car fast is stupid. In England it also encourages a lot of drivers especially younger people to drive really fast which can be very dangerous and cause a lot of damage. It's also putting their own life at risk and I don't understand why they should earn even more millions a year just because they won a few races that year. Which job do you think should earn the most? :)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Maren, Norway: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> I think that doctors should have bigger wage than racing drivers, but I also understand that the most exciting sports are the most funny to watch, and then again they earn more money to do their job. It's just the way the world is today.. If we like it or not.

Rikke, Norway:
I agree football players are paid too much. They have to make money, considering they have chosen it as their profession, but when the salary they receive every week are way higher than than what doctors and surgeons make a year, it's too much.

Natalie - England
=== In our country footballers are paid based on how well they play and sometimes which team they play for. This means they are often payed way too much than should be expected. That amount of money deserves to go to a good cause, not a sport where they run around kicking a ball and more often than not become injured. I agree with everything that has been said. ===