Footballers who are successful at business after retirement
For many years, footballers are often thought to be bad at handling their money. There are many football stars who are not only good at football skills but also are successful businessmen.
David Beckham
In the past, when seeing a football player, we often talk about his skills on the pitch and most of them were not associated with fashion and style. However, from David Beckham, we have to change such opinion totally. The star of Manchester United and Real Madrid was the first football player to build his great reputation out of football.
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Whenever he appears, his hairstyles, tattoos, shoes,…became trendy. This football star was the highest-paid football player in 2013, with more than $50 million in earning.
David Beckham bought one-third stake owned by Simon Fuller – his business partner and the creator of American Idol show – to get the full control of his company, together with his wife Victoria Beckham.
Beckham Brand Holdings was established in 2014. In 2019, the company was reported to generate a total revenue of $72.4 million and the profit for the fiscal year of 2017 was $16 million, as in the company’s filings. Also in 2017, just three years after the establishment of the company, Beckham Brand Holdings paid $24 million in dividends and had the net assets of $57 million.
His brand has achieved enormous success in the United States. As part of a deal he signed with Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007, he decided to buy Major League Soccer team in Miami at a good price. In 2012, David Beckham was reported to earn $6.5 million a year in his base salary. Also, the soccer star received a particular percentage of Galaxy revenue, turning out to be about $50 million for a five-year period.
There is no doubt that David Beckham has become a role model, not only in the football field but also in business field. Add to that, he is loved and appreciated with his handsome look, his fashionable yet elegant styles, his love for family and the way he takes care of his children.
Oliver Kahn
Football fans all know that Oliver Kahn is one of the greatest and most successful goalkeepers in the football history. However, more than just an excellent footballer on the pitch, he is also a wealthy businessman. After his retirement, Oliver Kahn still appear on the public, of course not with the role of a footballer but with the role of a football commentator and a successful businessman. Since 2008, he has been the football commentator on games for German broadcaster ZDF.
Ending his football career in 2008 when he was 39 years old, this football star took on a degree in business management. He achieved degree Master of Business Administration in 2011 and 5 years later, he launched his own business: Goalplay company.
His company focuses on providing digital goalkeeper training and a soccer products shop. Talking about his idea of this company, Oliver Kahn said “80 to 85 percent of German soccer clubs, and that is at least 26,000 clubs, still do not have a well-trained goalkeeper coach for the youth and amateur squads. We offer them digital goalkeeper coaching. Learning means: visualizing.”
Oliver Kahn is desperate for the expansion of his market to the USA and China market. He expresses that these are the super-exciting markets that he wants to break into.
Gerard Piqué
Another name in the list of successful businessmen who are former football players is Gerard Piqué. He is considered one of the best football players in the world with many titles any footballer want to achieve in their lives.
Handsome and skillful are not enough to describe this football star. With the IQ of 140, he succeeds considerably in poker tournaments, launching his company named Kosmos Global Holding. His company operates in several different industries, including tennis and media. He also contributes greatly to the reform of a traditional tennis tournament Davis Cup. Add to that, he once again takes part in football industry, no longer in the role of a football player but with the role of a club owner. He has the Spanish third division club FC Andorra and is taking his great effort to bring this club to the Champions League.
Andrea Pirlo
Andrea Pirlo – a former Italian midfielder – always looks calm whether at the moment or at his peak in football career. However, this gentlemen made his components dizzy with his super quick feet. Andrea Pirlo is no longer a footballer who can make his component afraid of. He has a new job which suits perfectly to his gentlemen appearance: a businessman who sell winery products.
Taking the business over from his parents, Andrea Pirlo has successfully brought the products to Europe market. The average annual winery bottles sold is about 15,000 to 20,000.
Christian Fuchs
The footballer star coming from Australia used to play for Mainz and Schalke. Christian Fuchs has much more than only football skills. He has ambitions of making online video series under the name of “No Fuchs Give” as well as selling merchandise on his website.
His online series focus on making strange, football-related challenges and he is the one who make most of these challenges. At the first half of 2019, he and his team took part in the Fifa Club World Cup. Answering FIFA, he talked about his ambition of building the next e-Football stars. The reason, as he explained, is that because these days there are already many excellent football players and they are working on the next generation.
Mathieu Flamini
Mathieu Flamini used to play for AC Milan and Arsenal at the peak of his career. After his retirement, he takes on business work but, not similar to most former footballers doing business, his company does nothing related to football, fashion and sports in general.
Instead, he nurtures a burning ambition of developing a sustainable alternative for oil-based products. His company GFBiochemicals is the pioneer that mass-produces in levulinic acid market – a market with the estimated value of $33 billion by Forbes.
While many footballers have nothing to do with their money but just throwing their money around, some of them are excellent at handling their money.