If you take a look at Forbes’ annual list of the highest paid athletes in the world, at least two or three of the top five spots are usually occupied by soccer players — and usually the same ones: Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar.
It’s no wonder, then, that the dream of becoming a pro footballer, to use the international term, is on the minds of hundreds of thousands of kids across the globe, each of them picturing a seven- or eight-figure contract with a top-tier European club, plus all the perks: sports cars, mansions, models and other accoutrements of a pop star life.
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