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Earning a salary of 100 thousand pesos, Jesús Molina tells how a Mexican soccer player invests his money.
Currently, the player with the best annual salary is Frenchman Florian Thauvin, a Tigres player.
In Mexico, INEGI data reveals that the average monthly salary is just over 12 thousand pesos.
Jesús Molina, current player of Club Deportivo Guadalajara and former player of Club América, revealed how a professional soccer player in Mexico manages his money, once he begins to earn more than the average.
The soccer profession in Mexico is one of the most controversial and unequal; while there are players who earn millions of dollars, there are those who receive a much lower salary compared to those classified as “big stars”.
Of course, the idea of the footballer is to advance and grow in his career, until he becomes a benchmark either for his club or even for his own team. The Mexican Futbol selectionalthough, according to some footballers, achieving it is not an easy thing and requires many sacrifices.
According to data from SalarySportAmong the players who earn the most in Liga MX, are the Mexican Guillermo Ochoa, from América, the Frenchman from Tigres André-Pierre Gignac and the new Brazilian reinforcement from Pumas, Dani Alves.
- André-Pierre Gignac, with a salary of 4.6 million dollars a year (more than 90 million Mexican pesos).
- Guillermo Ochoa, with a salary of 4.4 million dollars per year (more than 80 million Mexican pesos).
- Dani Alves with a salary of 3.2 million dollars a year (about 72 million Mexican pesos).
These salaries, if we compare them with what the average person earns in Mexico, have generated multiple controversies. To mention an example, according to the Labor Observatory of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS), the average salary for professionals in Mexico is 12,931 pesos per month. Similarly, in careers such as Finance or Political Science, the average salary is 23,985 pesos and 20,963 pesos, respectively.
Now, signature information Robert Walters indicates that the highest salaries in Mexico are 310,000 pesos per month as a legal area partner, 260,000 pesos as Sales Director, among others that exceed 120,000 pesos per month.
Jesús Molina tells what a professional soccer player in Mexico invests his money in
In an interview with Morris Dieck, Jesús Molina, current player of Club Deportivo Guadalajara, spoke a little about what financial education is like in Liga MX.
In other words, the former Club América player revealed what a professional soccer player in Mexico invests his money in when he begins to receive a better salary.
“When I started earning more than 100,000 pesos, I bought my house through Infonavit credit. Once I liquidate it, I go to Mexico City and I put my house up for rent, and that worked out well for me, and I thought about getting another one,” says the 34-year-old soccer player.
“The truth is that the soccer player, many times, is ignorant in financial matters and the easiest thing, I think, what one can access is the issue of real estate, which is rare for it to be devalued, and I went for that side,” he added:
Weeks ago, another of the cases that caught the attention of Internet users was that of the Mexican Jair Pereira, former player of Club Deportivo Guadalajara, who in an interview revealed that his first salary as a professional soccer player was 4,800 pesos per month, this when he was in the 2nd. Mexican soccer division.
For several years, the fact that soccer players earn much more than any professional in Mexico has been seriously questioned, since we are talking about very large figures. How fair is it that a soccer player, who often does not have a university degree, has a better income than a professional?