Last Updated on 12/16/2022 by てんしょく飯
Messi vs Mbappe. It’s an easy to understand final match.
The one who scores the goal is more likely to be the top scorer.
If Argentina wins for the first time in 36 years, Messi will be compared to Maradona, the “Son of God,” and if France wins again, Mbappe will be compared to Pele, the “King,” who won back-to-back titles at the age of 22. In every sense of the word, the eyes of the world will be on them.
Following Messi’s performance the day before, Mbappe was in another dimension in the semifinal against Morocco. When he had the ball, he was sometimes targeted by five or six players. Both his first and second goals were “assists” that drew the opposition to him. The midfielder Griezmann was a major force in both offense and defense, but in front of the goal, it was Mbappe who really shone.
The prize money for winning this year’s tournament was the highest in history at $42 million (approximately 5.88 billion yen). The runner-up was awarded $30 million, so there is a big difference between the two. A normal person would think, “This is a big difference. However, for these two huge earners, the prize money (even if some of it is returned to the players) is probably of no interest to them.
According to the 2022-23 year ranking of the best soccer players in the U.S., Mbappe is No. 1 with $128 million, followed by Messi with $120 million, Portugal with Ronaldo in third, and Brazil with Neymar in fourth. The first and second place finishers fight for the championship, the top scorer, and their own value.
The income is largely divided between annual salaries from clubs and sponsors. Mbappe signed a new three-year contract with his club Paris Saint-Germain (Paris SG) this past May. According to the English Sky electronic version, the contract is worth about 16.3 billion yen, and the monthly salary is really about 650 million yen.
In the past, soccer players had lower incomes than players in the major American leagues, the NBA, and the NFL. Even Maradona, at the height of his career with Napoli, was said to earn 600 million yen a year. However, after 2000, capital from the U.S., China, and the Middle East oil-rich countries flowed into the clubs, causing their salaries to skyrocket. Soccer is now a “profitable” sport.
Paris SG, which boasts Mbappe, Messi, and No. 4 Neymar, bought the club in 2011 from Qatar Sports Investment, a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority. With the hosting of the 2022 World Cup, which was decided the year before, the Qatari government’s “growth strategy in soccer” will come to a grand conclusion in the finals.
The Qatari national team was eliminated in the second round of the first round, the fastest in World Cup history, but the royals must be happy. （The royals should be happy, as Germany and Croatia (without Paris SG) will be eliminated, and Mbabé and Messi, two of the biggest spenders in the tournament, will close out the tournament. If this is the grand scenario that has been the subject of a massive investment of wealth for more than a decade? The tournament will end with a clash of the highest paid “No. 10” (Paris SG’s No. 10 is Neymar) at the world’s highest level.
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