FDear You,

Football is a job and ticket to life’s success for many families.

It’s a career path that can end poverty in one’s lineage.

Brazilians milked the sport.

Africans milked it as well.

The number of Africans playing across the globe is astronomical.

The numbers keep getting more explosive.

It’s an escape route from poverty.

What Messi and his family used to be back in the days are not where they are any more.

Ronaldo’s father, José Dinis Aveiro died in 2005 of liver failure, when Ronaldo was just 20 – two years into his career at Old Trafford.

“But I really don’t know my father 100 per cent. He was a drunk person. ‘I never spoke with him, like a normal conversation.”

If Ronaldo’s father saw the future, he would probably have avoided alcohol.

He would have had a different life and be enjoying money with his son and family now.

But life is tricky.

Would Ronaldo be Ronaldo if his father didn’t give his life to alcoholism?

Ronaldo went out harder knowing he had to save his mother.

Neymar is another story. His father knew there was money in the game.

He didnt become a superstar. But he decided to use his knowledge to assist his son to grab the bag.

Neymar Junior had to go make the money Neymar senior couldn’t make.

He inherited his name from his father, who is a former footballer.

And Senior became his son’s advisor as Neymar’s talents began to grow.

Today, they swim in money.

These footballers are money machines.

Osimehn left the shores of Nigeria as a poor boy with talents.

His first big pay delivered his family from poverty.

His subsequent pay led to family reset.

Money so big there had to be internal family battles.

They had never seen such money before.

Those with sense in the family now have estates.

Those without sense have fought their way back into poverty and misery.

Money.

Money will cause trouble.

Money will settle trouble.

An Osimehn that would never have been able to stand before an Adeleke is the same lad that attended Davido’s wedding as a VIP. So much so that Davido told him he was star struck.

Davido and Star Struck in a sentence and the verb is qualifying the emotions of Davido and not another object in the sentence?

Football made the Babayaros influential.

Football made Mikel Obi’s father a kidnappp target.

If not football, what concerns Mikel Obi’s father with Kidnapppers?

Okocha cant be poor again.

The prince of Monaco, Victor Ikpeba is still wealthy.

We were at Udia Attai’s event the other day. And everyone was all around Ikpeba. They all wanted a photo with him.

The last time Ikpeba played football was in 2005.

There are players like Gionvani Dos Santos who started as a very promising footballer but really couldn’t be that superstar we thought he would be.

What did he do?

He branched into Oil and Gas very quickly. Reinvesting and solidifying his wealth.

There are players like that.

They know the money will finish soon and their career is not going as glorious as they want. They quickly take a swift shift.

There is the story of former Barcelona striker Martin Braithwaite reportedly buying a piece of Espanyol.

Martin is a money grower.

He made the most money with his stake at the NYCE Companies.

Even though he started by reportedly investing $850,000 in 2017, his wealth grew to over $280 million by June 2024.

He looked away from football. He invested in real estate business.

Some other footballers…

They get money and party until they become poor.

How can you be a world class footballer and be filing for bankruptcy?

We know some of these terrible stories.

Your Football Money Spotter

Ediale

ForTheCulture

PS: Obafemi is still balling in night clubs. I want to believe he has made so much investments. Odion Ighalo is also one with good investments.