World Cup 2010 teams total cost

Portuguese web magazine Futebolfinance.com, which deals with economic issues a soccer game, made the cost-list of teams and coaches that will play at World Cup 2010.

Most expensive team proved to be Spain, the current European champion, whose 25 players, according to Portuguese source, worth a total of 565 million Euros. Brazil is second with 515 million Euros, followed by France with 450 millions, England with 440 million and Italy with a 400 million Euros.

Germany, for example, is only at eighth place with players worth 305 million Euros, after the Argentina (390) and Portugal (340), in which more than a quarter of total worth waste to Cristiano Ronaldo who worth 94 million Euros.

Cheapest 2010 World Cup teams will be New Zealand and North Korea. Financefutebol.com has estimated values of both teams at 15 million Euros.

On a scale that shows the salaries of the national teams head coaches first is Fabio Capello, whose annual salary is 8.8 million €. The second is also Italian, Marcello Lippi, who annually earns 3 million Euros. Third on this list is Jaochim Löw, head cocach of German national team, who earns 2.5 million Euros, and all the other coaches that will lead teams at the World Cup 2010 has less than 2 million € per year

Brazilian and Argentine coaches, Carlos Dunga and Diego Maradona, share only 11th place on this list, with 800,000 Euros per year.

Wednesday,
Dec 09, 2009.