Professional sportsmen are more interested in making money than playing the game. Do you agree?

   I agree to a lot of extent that the passion of playing among the sportsmen is diminishing as the lust for money is increasing among the players and the money received differs from game to game. Nowadays everyone hankers after money and professional sportsmen are no exception. Sports is the only bread and butter they have but most, if not all, players are increasingly sidelining their duties, to play for their national team at first priority.

  In today’s world, sportsmen prefer to play in different leagues or do modeling or receive sponsors from different famous branded companies in order to accumulate huge influxes of money in order to support their ever increasing extravagant lifestyles. These deviate them from their original responsibilities.

  I am also in the opinion that by playing for the national teams, the players do not receive as much money as they would by playing in a league. To counter this, the national boards should try to raise the funds given to the players. This would lessen the excuse made by players that they do not get enough funds by playing for the national teams. This is why they play in different leagues and mostly become unfit or injured when it comes to play in the national teams. The players who are unable to play in leagues revert to illegal means which could be intentionally losing a match in match fixing or not perform well to receive money from gamblers. This means that for the sake of money, they betray and sell out their own nations.

  The best players who become brand ambassadors or get sponsors as well as those who are paid huge sums of money just for appearing in an advertisement or coaching a rich person’s child for sometime prefer to do these rather than playing the game. They get money by just sitting in home and the sum they get is many times greater than the amount received when they play for their respective nations. This greediness encourages them to stay at home.

  This is why I am in the opinion that money has become the most important thing for most of the sportsmen who do not even feel remorse when they double cross their own nations and people.