Football / Soccer / Calcio / Futebol / Fußball

At the top level? Absolutely they do, along with a lot of other professional sports people. I was a professional educator. My job was to teach young people to express themselves via their language and among other things I taught Mathematics, History, Geography and German. The highest salary I ever earned was about $80,000 AUD per year for this work. According to the website "www.statista.com/" the average pay earned by Manchester United players was over 7 million GB pounds (about 13.3 MILLION AUD) per season. Every club except 3 had players earning over 1 million pounds per season. For me as a teacher, even if I earned 100,000 AUD a year, it would take me 133 years to earn what a player for Man U to earn in a single year.

He kicks a ball around, sometimes not even all that good. I taught kids to read, to value themselves as humans, and a thousand other things. And yet, the world in which we live values and rewards a ball kicker vastly more than people like teachers, nurses, police offers, firemen and women. I even hear that teachers in the US have to get second jobs to get by. If that is true, then that is bullshit which a capital B.