2022 FIFA World Cup

[Thryleon]

Why play Soccer when you can play a better game in Aussie Rules? You don't have to go overseas to be successful. As for the game, well half of the world cup games so far have had neither side scoring. That is supposed to be interesting?

It is a good thing that the best athlete here don't play soccer.

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A professional soccer player in the second tier competitions around most of the prominent European leagues (Spain, France, Germany, england) has more earning power than those in Australia playing afl and will pay in the vicinity of a couple of hundred thousand euros per season to play sport at a professional level.  The equivalent of your bog average vfl, sanfl,  wafl players in other words can earn 200k Aussie for the privilege.  Thing is if you can get into elite comps from there your earning power will get to a million a season just by making it into the top flight in most of the leagues. 

There are usually no more than about 10 afl players that earn 1 million a season and that seems to be limited to the cream of the crop for a really short period of time unless you're a buddy franklin.

Most afl players have a career that spans about 5 years.  If the players we are talking about are also rans, they're more likely to be under the annual wages for an average AFL player of lets say 450k a season.

At the end of the day, people will play the sport they want to, and not many on an AFL forum are going to appreciate soccer and thats perfectly fine.