They stray from Al Qaeda, including one Arab ... rich players before playing football

Nasser Sadiq

Although most footballers, especially the stars, grew up in poor families and stardom pulled them out from the difficult living conditions they were living in, there are some players who were already rich before they played the game.

The British newspaper The Sun shed light on these rich stars who played football in love or because of fame and stardom as well, and among them is the only Arab player, Saadi Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader, and they are as follows:

Faik Balqia
He is the richest soccer player ever, plays the reserve team for the English club Leicester, and his wealth exceeds $ 20 billion and he inherited it from a family of the richest people in the world, according to "Forbes" magazine. His father, Prince Ja`fari al-Balqiyya is the brother of Sultan Brunei Hassan al-Balqiyya.

Balkia is only 21 years old, and he played for many major English clubs among junior teams as a winger, as he started his football career in 2009 with Southampton, and in 2013 he played a trial period in Arsenal.

The following year he joined Chelsea, and in 2016 he settled in the Leicester club that he continued with so far, but he did not play for the club's first team that crowned the English Premier League title in 2016.

Saadi Gaddafi
He is the third son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and his love for football has swept him to play in three Italian clubs: Perugia, Udinese and Sampdoria.

He is considered the second richest of football with a fortune of millions of dollars, to the point that before his retirement in 2011, Argentine legend Diego Maradona worked with him as his own technical advisor, and Canadian runner Ben Johnson appointed his personal coach to develop his physical abilities.

Gerrard Pique
Barcelona defender and the Spanish national team have lived a luxurious life since his early childhood in a wealthy family in Catalonia, his father is a successful lawyer and businessman, while his mother was the director of a large hospital in Barcelona.

Therefore, Pique was not only a star of Spanish football, but his activity extended until he became one of the most prominent businessmen active in the field of sport in the world through a group of private companies that he runs himself, and said in one of his statements that his Argentine colleague Lionel Messi participated in it.

Kaka
Unlike all Brazilian soccer players, Kaká, winner of the Golden Globe Award as the best player in the world in 2007, grew up in a rich family and was wealthy before his wealth doubled after his professionalism, as his father Ezikon Pereira Leyte was a prominent engineer, while his mother Simon Doss Santos is a school teacher.

Gianluca Vialli
Chelsea legend and the Italian national team have always lived as a gentleman thanks to his self-made millionaire father, who lived in a 60-room castle in Cremona, northern Italy.

Viale played the game of the rich golf and participated in the professional championship Alfred Dunhill, which is one of the most famous golf tournaments in Europe.

Frank Lampard
The current Chelsea coach was not looking to play football in search of the wealth he was already living in since his early nails, but his wealthy sporting family also made him inherit the game, which became one of his prominent stars in Britain, so his uncle Harry Redknapp and his father Frank Lampard Snare are game stars and rich people as well.

Lampard studied at the Brentwood School which he meant for the children of the wealthy in Essex, and one of his teachers states that he hoped to be an accountant but became a football superstar.

Mario Balotelli
Balotelli was not born a rich man as he grew up in Palermo for the parents of poor Ghanaian immigrants, but his life turned to richness when he was embraced by the wealthy Francesco and Silvia Balotelli family who lived in a Brescia aristocratic area called Consecio.

Andrea Pirlo
Juventus superstar and the former elegant Italian team has enjoyed an aristocratic life since his childhood thanks to his family, where his father Luigi established an iron and steel company in Brescia in 1982, in which the former star still has a stake in it, in addition to some other business that he engaged in after retiring from the ball.

Hugo Lloris
The Tottenham goalkeeper and roosters grew up in Nice, southern France, for a rich family, and his mother was a lawyer, while his father was a banker.

Loris tended to play tennis for the wealthy in his early childhood, but fate led him to soccer when he was 13 years old among junior teams.

Robin van Persie
The parents of the former Dutch national football star, Van Persie, gave the lives of the wealthy before becoming one of the stars of the Arsenal team and one of his top scorers.

He grew up in Rotterdam, and his father, Bob, is a great artist and sculptor. His mother, Jose, was a painter, teacher, and jewelry designer as well.

Van Persie's parents separated as a teenager, and contrary to their expectations that he would be an artist like him, he went to soccer and became one of the leading scorer in the Netherlands throughout its history. He was crowned the Premier League's top scorer in two seasons.

Van Persie bestowed his Islam upon his marriage to a Dutch woman of Moroccan origin called Bouchra El-Bali, who settled in London.

Patrick Bamford
The Leeds striker and the England national team belonged to the family of the wealthy British Joseph Bamford, who founded the famous drilling equipment company "JCB", which made him live the life of the wealthy from the earliest age and learns to play violin and piano as well.

Patrick (26 years old) attended Nottingham High School, which is attended by only the wealthy of Britain, and studied French, history and biology at a high level, and he was superior, unlike most footballers, until he obtained a scholarship at Harvard University in the United States of America.

Causes of the phenomenon
Professor Gamal Ismail, an instructor of sports training and an international lecturer in football, explains to Al Jazeera Net the phenomenon of scarcity of the rich in the world of football, as almost all stars are poor or have an average standard of living, and says that any performance, especially in football, relates to motivation because it is the engines of behavior He added, "Given the difficulty of the player making his way in the first popular game in the world, the rich play it or not complete the journey to the end."

Ismail believes that the poor players are more motivated to excel because it is a path of wealth and stardom, especially when he sees encouragement from his family and surroundings, indicating that the motivation is growing and growing with the player steadily, and that the most sustainable motives are the presence and self-realization that is scientifically called "I am" .

And Ismail asserts, based on his personal experience as a football coach for three decades, that 99% of those who continue in the game are the players who grew up in a relatively poor environment, as evidenced by his words in Brazil, most of whose stars come from the poor quarter or from sometimes lacking families.

He also set an example of the most prominent stars in Egypt and the Arab world today, Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, who was supervising his team when he was a junior player in the Arab Contractors Club, where he grew up in a poor family living in one of the villages of Tanta in Gharbia Governorate, which is a successful and distinguished model for a large segment of players Egyptian football struggled until they reached stardom.