Each day, more footballers from Zimbabwe are getting into betting

  • Posted on: 4 May 2016

Football is a sport that is considered to be one of the most lucrative in the world with players earning huge salaries. Lionel Messi earns £336,000 every week and all the top performers in the world have similar earning.

However, taking into consideration that Messi is widely considered to be the best player in the world, it’s only appropriate that he has a salary at that same level. Shane Long is a lesser known figure who performs with Southampton and his salary is in the range of £50,000 which is significantly less in comparison to Messi and other renowned figures but his salary is still good enough for him to live an incredibly luxurious lifestyle.

Not all football players in the world have the privilege of earning a substantially large amount of cash from playing and an example of this are players from Zimbabwe who are performing in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer and have had to get into the world of betting in order to earn enough money to support their families.

The vice-captain of Dynamos, Thomas Magorimbo is one of the players that is reportedly believed to have been involved in betting. David Kutyauripo and Guthrie Zhokinyu are a few of the others players from the PSL that have been identified and linked with betting events.

Clubs in the Premiership league of Zimbabwe pay salaries of around $400 but there are many clubs that are even paying less than this amount while some players haven’t even gotten paid at all. This leaves the players without any option but to start betting and try to get money outside from actual playing in order to get cash that is enough to live on.

Betting on football is something that football organizations and authorities are continuously trying to stop from happening but when players don’t have enough money to even support their own families, they have to do things besides playing in order to earn that needed cash and betting is starting to turn to an option for these players.