The South African Football Players Union says that they too are concerned by the prevalent story of soccer players falling from grace and some of them even dying as paupers.
. Recently, former Bafana goal-minder, Emille Baron joined the long list of players, reported to have hit rock-bottom and now apparently living on handouts.
In recent times, the story of former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper raised eyebrows after reports emanated that the shot-stopper was down and out and living of a state grant of about R500 per month. “But it’s not only about him having wasted money, he had what, a 5-year contract and he was expected to make life decisions on that. You consider an Emile Baron who went through a South African school system that did not tell him anything about finances. It does not tell him anything about signing a contract,” says the President of the South African Football Players Union Thulaganyo Gaoshubelwe,
“Part of the problem is that we need to look deeper into this thing called tax. This tax issue, so that we have a sports tax. Football or sports, but football in particular was never taken into consideration, now we know that the financial system relies on a credit record, and you need to have a very good financial record. When you earn example R100 000, the taxman comes and takes 45%. Your R45 000 is gone and there you have a two-year, three-year contract.
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