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You have achieved the American dream. When Pau Gasol set out to conquer the NBA, no one stopped him. He was the second Spaniard to achieve such a feat after the adventure of Fernando Martín in 1986, which was cut short three years later when he died from a car accident. Today Pau is 40 years old and, looking back, he is more than satisfied with everything he has achieved.

Leaving his native Barcelona and moving away from his family and friends was a great sacrifice . But it was worth it. So far, he has won two NBA rings, three Olympic medals, six medals in European championships and one world championship, among many other achievements. While he was in the Lakers, Leonardo di Caprio, Jack Nicholson or Penelope Cruz were his most unconditional fans.

In addition to awards and prestige, according to statistics from the United States Department of Labor, from his debut with the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2001/02 season to that of 2018/19 with the San Antonio Spurs and the Milwaukee Bucks, the salary Gasol's total, with inflation included, has risen to 253.3 million dollars (225.1 million euros). And his brother Marc, from the 2008/09 season with the Memphis Grizzlies -he was with them until 2018- until 2018/19 with the Toronto Raptors has accumulated earnings of 166.8 million dollars (148.2 million euros) .

Unlike other playmates who flaunt their expensive whims (Shaquille O'Neal spent 20 million euros on a mansion in Miami, LeBron James owns a fleet of 15 luxury cars or Jarret Jack keeps more than 1,500 pairs of shoes), Pau Gasol has always been a discreet, measured and very familiar man. Far from squandering his fortune, he has wisely invested it in various businesses that have been paying him very well. For example, he partnered with his close friend Rafa Nadal, with Enrique Iglesias, Cristiano Ronaldo and the businessman Abel Matutes Jr. -son of the former PP minister and one of the richest men in Ibiza- in a lucrative hospitality business of the group Tatel (Madrid, Ibiza, Miami and Beverly Hills). And soon after, they took a chance with the Zela restaurant on the Pitiusa island and in London.

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In 2003, he created the company Futur 16 SL in order to promote and develop urban projects, sale, administration, non-financial leasing or exploitation under any modality of rustic or urban farms, etc., of which his father, Agustí, is sole administrator. In 2017, the year in which the accounts were last presented, the company had an income of 710,000 euros and a profit of 125,000 euros. Not bad when the previous year he had a loss of 1.3 million euros as a result of mismanagement after the absorption of Banco Popular, which at the time hired him for a million euros a year for lending his image. It is said that other sponsors such as Nike, Force or Porsche could also pocket another 2.5 million euros a year for each brand.

Among the athlete's other properties, the three-storey mansion that he owns in the elite Barcelona neighborhood of Sant Gervasi, a 251-hectare estate in Almoguera (Guadalajara) stands out, and four years ago he sold his house overlooking the Pacific for about 2.8 million euros.

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Despite being one of the richest athletes in our country, Pau Gasol has always been a very supportive person . In 2003 he was appointed Unicef ​​ambassador and a decade later he created with his brother Marc the Gasol Foundation . In one of these trips for this United Nations Organization, the visit to the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan marked him in an extreme way. Upon his return, he explained: "Each trip has had its difficulties with very harsh realities. But this one in particular has been especially difficult because I have seen many children who have experienced an armed conflict, have psychological trauma, have had to walk many kilometers from the border of their country to the refugee camp and they hope to return home one day. A child should not go through this situation. "

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Always discreet with his private life, it was learned through his official account on Instagram that he had married in 2019 with the Californian financier Catherine McDonnell, ten years younger, twice, the first in San Francisco and then in Ampurdán (Girona ).

Without a doubt, the young woman will be a great help in managing the current account of the Catalan center. At the moment, the couple does not have children. Previously, she dated Silvia López for five years, who was a well-known cheerleader in the Los Angeles Lakers and, according to the latest information that is known about her, currently works as a nutritionist in Barcelona.

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