Argentine world football champion Lionel Messi, who is one of the ten highest paid athletes of all time, is not the richest football player in his current Inter Miami team.
Despite a salary of $54 million (and a net worth of more than $500 million in US dollars), there is a player in the MLS club who has more money. According to Mundo Deportivo, this is the 23-year-old Ecuadorian striker Leonardo Campana, who moved to Inter Miami from the English Wolverhampton earlier this year, whose fortune is estimated at more than a billion dollars. More precisely, not him personally (the salary of a football player is only 550 thousand a year), but his incredibly wealthy family.
His grandmother Isabelle Noboa is one of Ecuador’s most successful businesswomen, and his grandfather Isidro Campan was the country’s foreign trade and investment minister. Leonardo’s uncle, Alvaro Campana, is known throughout South America as a magnate, and another uncle, Daniel Noboa, may become president of Ecuador.
We add that this season Leonardo Campan played 28 matches for Inter Miami in all tournaments and scored 6 goals. He also has 13 caps for the Ecuador national team (no goals scored).
Earlier reported that Messi’s wife confused her husband with a partner in the club, but “came to her senses” in time.
Source: Fakty
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