They criticize Messi’s salary: ‘Science should be well paid’ | Football24 News English

Madrid Spain / 05.02.2021 06:08:33

Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribes, Spanish Minister of Culture and Sports, said that las ‘exhorbitant’ figures from the Leo messi at Barcelona ‘collide’ In the current context of the economic crisis derived from the coronavirus pandemic, since in his view, science is the one that must be well paid.

“We have a problem with what it means, but not now, now it is more visible when there is a crisis situation. That defines us as a society. We have to see things differently. Who should be well paid is science … and soccer too“, he said in statements to Telemadrid that Europa Press collects.

Rodríguez Uribes said cannot “put a cap” on wages because today’s society is “capitalist”, “open” and it is governed by market laws, although it pointed out that, from a moral point of view, it costs more to assimilate contracts of 555 million in just 4 years, according to the newspaper El Mundo.

“We have done something that goes in the opposite direction. We have made a pact between the CSD, LaLiga and the Spanish federation of soccer so that, in the context of the pandemic, television rights, through a foundation, are distributed to minority sports that are having a very bad time, “he said.

On the other hand, The Minister of Sports was convinced that this summer the Olympic Games from Such. “I think so, the information that comes to me from International Olympic Committee, and the president of the COE, Alejandro Blanco, is that in July we will have the Tokyo Olympics. They will be able to celebrate, although it will not be with full stadiums. They will have their controls and guarantees, but it will be a good moment for humanity to meet again and start the next horizon with strength, “he stressed.