Second-Tier Pro Athletes Are Modern-Day Serfs - Bloomberg View
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-29/second-tier-pro-athletes-are-modern-day-serfs
Lower-ranked athletes lack the most basic protections afforded to other workers.
The International Federation of Professional Footballers, an organization that represents 65,000 professional soccer players, published a report detailing the plight of the many athletes who barely make a living wage
(...) In pro sports, there’s usually no time to work a second job, and players often compromise on education. According to FIFPro, 72 percent of soccer players have gone no further than high school.
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