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PROFESSIONAL
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FOOTBALL IS
BIG BUSINESS IN SPAIN
Best players get £9,000 to £21,000 a year
Madrid, Sept. 1....
Professional football is big business in Spain today. The recently published accounts of the Barcelona Club for the season 1959-1960 showed a profit of more than 14,000,000 pesetas (£84,000). The assets of the club were given as over 314,000,000 pesetas (£1,884,000);
Such figures, considering that the Club only finished the construction of a new stadium with a capacity of 100,000 specia. sors several years ago, give an idea of how big the football business cur be.
ad. another, it is not very dif- ficult for a top-light player in the Madrid or Burcelona teams
become to
a millionaire, in pesetis in a short time.
The three highest puid players In Spain are the Argentinian- Di Stefano, who plays for Real Madrid, the Hun Football, in Spain, is deurian-torn Latiisiaw Kulafa of the Barcelona Club, and the finitely
which a world J
Brozila player Didi. The first money
and business How In
two are nukuralised Spanlarda. an Impressive currentť, oť wealth, converting the country
Alfredo Di Stefano, 33-year- Into
a "paradise of football"
old centre-forward of the Real as it is sometimes called,
Madrid, regarded by many us the Real Madrid football club pays | world's greatest football playe" 20,000,000 pesetas (£120,000) today, is believed to be making year in taxes and its expenses about
Football 'paradise' born Alfredo
|
in the Brazilian national team which won the world champion- ship In 1950 earns bround (£15,000) a 2,500,000 pesetas yeur..
Puskas, Kocsis and Calber, former players of the Hungarian Honved team, the first of whom with Real is now playing Madrid and the other two with the Barcelona Club, each makes around 2,000,000 peselas (£12,000) year. Vava, another Brazilian player who came to Spain to play for the Atieties de Madid, whon Didi went to Real Madrid, makes 1,500,000 pesetas
(£9,000) a year.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER. 2. 19
DAWN RETAINS
pesetas Best paid Spaniards Saltza or the 3,500,000
in saluries to players and other | ( 121,000) a year, He la thought staly are around 50,000,000 to receive 2,000,000 (£12,000) a
· pesetas (£300,000) epch year,year under contract agreement. The club is now involved by the He earos monthly salary of construction of a sports centre 2,000 pestar (£120) und at which there will be facili may make as much as a million they for training in alblattes."
pesetas (£6,000) each year in bons
Τα meet expenses, Real Madrid has a yearly income of 00,000,000, 'pesetas ( £549,000) of which 15,000,000
pestas (£80,000)
from comes
thu matches played in the Fatropean Cup series, the trophy which has been won by Real Madrid etek year since it was founded, fee years ago..
The Santiago Bernabeu Stadium of Real Madrid and the, Rimost inished sports centre are valued 750,000,000 pesetas'
at
·( £4,500,000). The player of the team, in terms of transfer
values,
br
reported are
100,000,000
worth around
Invested
ho
has invested his Di Stefano savings. He has bought a furm
Aires. near Buenos
white & popular cafeteria in the centre of Madrid is believed to belong to him.
The 32-year-old Ladislaw Kubala is thought to earn ap- proximately 2,500,000 pesetas with the (£15,000) a year Barcelona
Be in Club.
the best paid player of the Club, is Di Stefano is in the Real Madrid Club.
For some time, only foreign players in Spain were earning nuch high salaries, bonuses and contract money. But in the last few years, things have changed and: now good Spanish players are also well paid.
The three best paid Spanish | players me Luds Suarez, of the Barcelona Club, Luis Dei. Soi, of Francisco Real Madrid, and Genio, also of Real Madrid. Each one makes upproximately 2,000,- 000 pesetas (£12,000) a year.
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As there is a law forbidding the Spanish Clubs to have mond than two foreign pinyers, many
players have be forefigh-born come naturalised Spaniards.
Clubs try to mut-do with other Real their installatio
de rival, Atletico Mocirid's His contruct is believed to Madrid, is building a
1,500,000 pesetus stadium. which will seat 110,000 spectators, and in which 40 per He has (£9,000) * year. salary of 15.000 pesetas (£00) cent of the public will be sented. This new stadium will have a his bonuses may Attracted by this wealth, the a month and
750,000 sports centre. and its total cost football atare of the world watch amount.
wound to
will be of around 200,000,000 eagerly for a chance to join apeselas (£4,500) euch yeur.
At the pesetas (£1,200,000), is the proprietor of a Spanish club, In the annual sum- Kubala
new stadium.
ticket mer scramble for talent.
fashion shop, in Barcelona.
holders who desire it will even be able to reserve their place in the car park.
pesetas (£800,000). In other property, the Real Madild club hag another 100,000,000 peetus provide for (£600,000)..
Under the regulations, Spain should not be the footballed players "promised land" that it is. Omelally, a first class foot- baller, as, for Instance. the universally-known. Alfredo DI Stefano or the popular Hun- garlan burn Ferenc Puskas,
to considered everywhere
be masters in the sport; should hot earn-more-than 150,000 pesetas (£900) a year."
Top salaries
Yet it is no exaggeration to say that no Spanish club in either the first. OF second division pays li players the regulation salaries. The top figures of Spanish football make between 1,500,000 and ! 3,500,000 pesetas (29,000 to 221,000) a year.
The total salary of a star foot- ball player is usually made up as follows: Best, he is a month- ly salary, Then he rectives a certain amount each your under contract agreement, Fmally, he is paid a bonus for each match won during the season,
Sonie
f
of the bonuses for an European Cup match have amounted to us |
mich 50,000 pesetas (£300) to each player. With one thing
Fastest century of the season by Roy McLean
Hastings, Sept. 1..
Roy McLean,
with the fastest century of the season, provided the high- light. on the second day of the Festival match, here today between the South African tourists and A.E.R. Gilligan's eleven. With a day to go, the Spring- boks were 210 in front with two second innings wickets in hand. : McLean was responsible
for
110 of their 239, taking 30 minutes over his first six runs. He then raced to 100 in 70 *minutes.
Generously fest by Tony Lock, the, Surrey and England off- spinner, he hit 17.. fours and two sixes for his 100, and added two more fours before he was cut after 10 minutes.
The Springbake' opponents resumed at 30 for, one this morning in reply to 288 And were ait out Just before lunch for 201..
..
The lead was glypa tem by Derek Morgan, who slammed Hughie Taylold for 23' in DEA over although dropped twice The rokes Included two sixen aird two fours,
Last gut bla 2:Jul25 „pninadea. included two sixes and alx, fourn,
Router.
The Brazilians, Didi, who join- this Real Madrid after being
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Entries invited
MPIC TITLE
1,
Ist
COUNTY CRICKET
Three-way struggle
for runners-up
position continues
London,, Sept. 1.
The three-pronged struggle for, the runners Hu position to Yorkshire in the English County Cricket Championship continues.,
Lord's
.
sub one of three, Sussek tich went on to score grounds where no play was 150 for eight.
possible, so Middlesex may get
nothing out of their game with
Worcestershire, who are
481
behind on And. innings with six wickets standing.
Laneshire
Scores
Close or play Vabores in to- day's 'cricket matches were:
game withAt Nottingham! :- Glomorgan
Sussex finished in an exciting 218. Versus position t Blackpool, for No, play Sussex. to need 31 mins with two wickets left for victory.
Lamshire, having scored 154
In their first innings, were put
Nottinghamshire, Playtoplay because of rain, Lorda. Middlesex, 149. Worcestershire 96 for, four. No play today. because, of rain,
out for 109 in their second, with Chalon Essex 48 for nine dodlared... Versus War- Last nedlum towler Don Butes
wickshire. No play today, fuking live for 30 for Sussex.
rain.
Britain plans to clean up racing
At Dover: Leicestershire 200. Kent 160 for eight, rain,
At Scarborough MCC 155 for ainé declared and '81 for five Yorkshird (188 (for nine
(P. 43).
JOCKEY CLUB SETTING UP declared ( Sharpe
OWN FLYING SQUAD TO
PROBE DOPING SCANDALS
By PERCY HOSKINS and CLIVE GRAHAM
The Jockey Club is setting up its own Flying Squad to investigate the
doping scandals which are blackening the name of racing.
Main job of the team will be West Sussex detectives who owners, trainers, stable lads, and
break
the little have been operating of Arundel particularly bookmakers... through to
get at the Mister went to crooks and Bigs of the racket-the men who Scotland make the big belting coups with the case. crippling pill or hypodermic.
The Vespa Club of Hong- kung announces that it will and its annual Night Rally over a course of just over 200 miles on New Territories and Kowloon ads, on Saturday September 3, 1900, commencing trợn 8,00 ay) at the Tsim Sha Tsui Car Park and ending twelve hours later, recisely on Sunday moming at the Sha- tim Inn, Kowloom.
Members of the Club who have not yet sent in their ap- together with plication forms,
the appropriate fees are ad- vised to do so immediately.
THAT COWBOY HAS LEPT WITHOUT BAYING
HIS BILL
YES, ILL
WELL HAVENto REPORT THIS BACKI PO ITI
TO EARTH DR,
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complex
aad
London and asked Yrrd to take
over
The "old dirtn" can be asked to explain why in the market it. opposed strongly-fancied horses which then failed to run to form,
But
The task-2
The task-} One reason for the move is to relieve the overworked God They have several good leads
when 11 comes to underinanned, police in an im--but those would involva send-
time-ing officers all over Britain to Investigating bookies" ledgers, Investigate bookmakers' accounts. the task is formidable indeed. consuming job.
the said
West Impossible.
For one thing. "doping" beta An example, pame yesterday Sussex men. Outside our juris- are usually spread over a large over the investigation into the diction, said Scotland Yard number of scattered accounts,
For another, many books are doping of a horse belonging to and suggested handing the whole the Duke of Norfolk who is a thing over to the Jockey Club. scribbled in an all-but-unerǝck- steward of the Jockey Club.
The new
squad will talk toable code of their own.
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But, anyway, racing itself making a start to clean racing.
Portland Handicap
acceptors
up
London, Sept. 1. Sixteen Arsi acceptances for the Portland Handicap to be rui over five furlongs and 152 yards
cat Blackpool, Lancashire 154 and 109 (D. Bater now for 30). Sussex 77 and 156 for eight,
A Taunton; Hampshire 150 | for four declared. Somerset $1 for. two (G. Attinson 50),- Reuter,
ENTRIES FOR THE MACAO
GRAND PRIX
Macay Sept. 2. At the closing date for entries för the Micso Gond Prix, August 31, 19 curs have been entered for the GP event. This number, does not include any late, entry that might be sent to the representative of the Automovel Club De Portugal in Hongkong
As is usual, a period of 15 days grace will be considered for the last-minute entries.
Besides the DKW 1000S,. last yeur's runner-up. the three Porsches and a fleet of Austin- Ferrari Healeys podjet TRI®, entered, koy M Bussell, a Mer- cedes 190SOL entered by J. | Dominis will be on the run with | tharfast youth winning car, the Jegundi XKSS. drivor this year by another seasoned motor-
Facer, Mr. Redfern..
No decision
has been reach
at Doncaster on Friday, Sep-the-committee to admit tember 9, are;
Formulo cars into the GP.--.
Bicep Bleep (até mehe AFP... seven pounds), Deer Leap (8.3),
Chris (8.1), Tin White (843)))
Rolled Gold (8.10), Helen Rosa į (8.3), Made Alone and „Háva (8.0), Eternal Goddess (7.30).
SCRATCHED
Honeymoor (7.8), Accompanist Pharaon
and Comobeau (7.0),
Faint
Sun London, Sept. 1.
was, "oficially
Hope, Dawn Watch, Brigg Fair scratched from the Doncaster und Commore (All at 7.0) St Leger at 0830 GMT today... China Mail. Special,
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