Attack “Spartak” Alexander Kokorin shared his opinion on the attitude of society to the salaries of football players.
– You loved to upload pictures of an expensive car, you bought a bunch of expensive cars, outfits with logos. Didn’t you think that people would envy you, that it would cause hatred?
– I didn’t think, but they told me about it. I have a more European mentality. There’s attitude … Look at the black rappers what they put out. Can you imagine what he will exhibit in Russia? It will be horror in general.
I do it when I am in the mood. I woke up – took a picture with a Lamborghini. I didn’t do this to … This is my car. I bought it, I have it. I don’t show something that I don’t have.
– It seems to me that especially close attention is paid to football players, especially to their salaries, lifestyle. Why?
– For some reason, people think that we are supported by the taxes they pay. “We pay taxes, and the guys are paid such salaries.” I also pay taxes, and they are super huge. If you take my whole story and count it, there is a decent amount.
This is a stereotype that has developed that we are supported by their money. If you compare us with the guys from good clubs, national teams … Take the same Neymar – he receives 40 million. This is 3 million euros a month. Nobody says that we are at his level, so we get 10 times less.
– You rightly said, in the West there is a different mentality, they respect those who are successful, who earn a lot. And in our country they don’t like them.
– They don’t like us at all. I am looking at Abramovich, he has three boats 200 meters each. I look at him and admire him. It doesn’t matter where he earned this money, I like him, he appeals to me. And we have the opposite. Nobody wants to say that it was probably hard for him, – said Kokorin in an interview with PeopleTalk.
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