RICH by playing Soccer in Singapore?

Being in a small city country, it has never been a gorgeous and sought-after career to be a professional footballer.

Of course, in the 90s, Singapore was participating in the Malaysian League and was once of the top performing teams. After we pulled out of the Malaysian League, we started our own S-League and have produced couple of exciting players to support our National Team - known as "The Lions".

Few years back, there were plans to catapult "The Lions" towards World Cup 2010 Finalist, but looking at it, it is still JUST A DREAM!

I was reading Soccernet earlier and noticed an article "Man City owner tops British football's rich list". It seems like those players in Britain are earning big bucks with their passion and career associated with Soccer.

Rich List Top 20
1 Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Man City) £15billion
2 Lakshmi Mittal and family (QPR) £12.5bn
3 Roman Abramovich (Chelsea) £7bn
4 Joe Lewis (Tottenham) £2.5bn
5 Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone (QPR) £2.4bn
6 Stanley Kroenke (Arsenal) £2.245bn
7 Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal) £1.5bn
8 Lord Grantchester & the Moores Family (Everton) £1.2bn
8 Dermot Desmond (Celtic) £1.2bn
10 Lord Ashcroft (Watford) £1.1bn
11 Malcolm Glazer and family (Man Utd) £1.1bn
12 Simon Keswick (Cheltenham) £966m
13 Trevor Hemmings (Preston) £900m
14 Mike Ashley (Newcastle) £800m
15 Randy Lerner (Aston Villa) £750m
16 Tom Hicks (Liverpool) £700m
17 The Walker Family (Blackburn) £660m
18 Mohammed Al Fayed (Fulham) £650m
19 Sir David Murray (Rangers) £600m
20 Steve Morgan (Wolves) £400m

Top 20 players: (overall position in the main list in brackets)
1 David Beckham £125m (38)
2 Michael Owen £40m (56=)
3 Wayne Rooney £35m (61)
4 Rio Ferdinand £28m (69=)
5 Robbie Fowler £28m (69=)
6 Sol Campbell £28m (69=)
7 Ryan Giggs £23m (77)
8 Michael Ballack £20m (80=)
8 Frank Lampard £20m (80=)
10 Steven Gerrard £19m (86)
11 Cristiano Ronaldo £18m (87)
12 John Terry £17m (88)
13 Didier Drogba £15m (89)
14 Nicolas Anelka £14m (92=)
15 Damien Duff £14m (92=)
16 Dimitar Berbatov £13m (96=)
17 Ashley and Cheryl Cole £13m (96=)
18 Fernando Torres £13m (96=)
19 = Emile Heskey £12m (100)
20 Gary Neville £11.75m (101)

Wow. Not bad isnt it!!!!

Hmm...i just wonder when soccer players in other countries can earn as much as those in Britain...perhaps, they need to train and ply their trade as close in proximity to Britain to be successful.

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