Esteban Paz, president of the Quito League Football Commission, assured this Friday, May 8, that the former Manchester United captain donated his salary to the club’s employees. While other footballers also continue to approach their help in the face of the crisis caused by the Covid-19 that Ecuador is going through.
“When we told the players that we are going to withhold a percentage of their salary, Antonio Valencia told me:” Esteban, don’t worry about me, I have my life arranged. Take my monthly payment and pay the administration people, who live on your salary“” Paz stressed to journalists.
The leader did not disclose the figure and neither did the player, although club sources assure journalists that Valencia’s monthly payment is around USD 100,000.
In addition to the recent donation, Valencia provided last April with 20,000 biodegradable suits, gloves and masks for people who are in the front line of fighting the coronavirus.
Other local footballers have also provided help. Especially to inhabitants of the most vulnerable sectors, as in the case of the goalkeeper Máximo Banguera.
The player from El Nacional “has the characteristic of offering help”, and “he is currently doing delivery of basic necessities in highly affected sectors“One of his collaborators told Efe.
During the state of emergency decreed in Ecuador on March 16, the soccer players have shown solidarity as well as saw a reduction of their salaries by up to 50%. In addition, others have practically not received their wages in 2020.
The Argentine attacker Maximiliano Barreiro, from the Portoviejo League, who recently returned to Argentina, left in the morning in a van full of products and “I returned with the satisfaction of having donated everything” while he was in the port city of Manta in the midst of a pandemic.
The benchmarks of Ecuadorian football who are active in clubs abroad Enner Valencia, Jefferson Montero, Jaime Ayoví, among others, have also shown their spirit of solidarity sending thousands of masks, gloves, biodegradable suits and food baskets.
Most local footballers come from sectors with limited economic resources. Most managed to break poverty by getting involved in soccer.
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