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Spaniards biggest issue

Spain is a country full of culture, joy and host of the thousands of traditions that have influenced other nations. It is also known that Spain is one the most important countries in the football world. “La Liga” contains the highest qualities in aspects of players and teams. Most of the teams that go face to face with the biggest in the world and in Europe are Spaniard. Also, it characterizes for having the most influential fans; but the most dangerous at the same. It is a fact that Spaniard fans get crazy every time the ball runs on the field. But lately a new tendency of anger has appeared: the players get a very high salary according to what they do. This is considered unfair and wrong by the those who enjoy La Liga and for those who don’t.

Spain is recognized for preparing one the most professional and well prepared doctors in the world. A person that wants to become a doctor most spend around 8 or nine years of their lives (some times 12), depending on what specialty they want to study, to get the diploma that certifies them as professionals in the area. This requires daily study, doing practices and applying their knowledge in hospitals before they graduate. After that, there is a vague chance to get a full time job because the crisis that Spain is going through at the moment. Imaging that a young medicine graduated gets a job, the salary that they will get is not as high as the one that a soccer player gets.

Thousands of millions of euros is the number that we will get if we put in the market 10 La Liga players; and this is just their value. A soccer player salary goes beyond the tens of thousands euros each month; and that is just by being part of a team (without training, scoring or winning any championship). If a player scores so many time that he becomes a top scorer, wins a tournament and plays important matches, then the number will rise to half a million euros (give or take, depending on the player).

So what the fans ask to their selves is: why a soccer player by kicking a ball makes money fall from the sky, and a professional (let’s say a doctor) that sacrificed 8 years of his life doesn’t gets the half of a salary a soccer player gets? That actually has made people feel very angry because, as I previously stated, a soccer player gets paid by doing nothing and a doctor has to prepare himself for years to fall into the possibility that he doesn’t get to apply those years of study. This issue gets even bigger when a player is not at his 100%. In this case he is considered a waste of money (what he cost and what he get paid). This situation has driven to a polemic that doesn’t seems to have an end; because while a person gets more money than other which job is to save lives, there will always be an issue in the Spaniard fans.

But it is not less certain that football is the greatest passion in Spain. A lot of people gets benefits in this business because it creates a lot of jobs options. This has become one of the traditions a talked about at the beginning of this test. But it will always be an irregularity and an issue for Spain the marked differences that football represents.