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There is a public debate about wages in youth training centers. Ultimately, the laws of the market economy apply.
Why should it be any different in a free market economy? The top staff receive the highest salaries and bonuses, the proletariat only does its job for a fraction of it. Ultimately, Bundesliga soccer clubs are no exception to the rule, rather they are commercial enterprises that offset costs and benefits in order to make as much profit as possible. The clubs apparently see plenty of savings potential in the youth coaches.
Why doesn’t the club save on its overpaid professionals?
Of course, a monthly salary of 450 euros is highly unfair. Even if the Bundesliga soccer teams adhere to the law and statutes in their employment contracts, this exploitation of employees is morally reprehensible. Anyone can do a simple calculation without knowing the background: Why doesn’t the club save a few hundred thousand euros on its overpaid professionals to give 500 euros more a month to youth coaches who look after children 30 hours a week?
The debate about minimum wages in the youth training centers is gaining momentum because professional football is being viewed extremely critically these days. As much as players and those responsible practice humility and gratitude to be able to pursue their profession in Corona times, ultimately the general public sees football as being given preferential treatment. Nobody takes it from a Rumenigge or Watzke that they have been purified by the Corona crisis and want to act less capitalistically in the future. So it fits perfectly into the picture that some of the Bundesliga clubs in their academies only pay youth coaches a starvation wage.
Nobody is forced to work in an NLZ
But it is also clear that under these conditions no one is forced to take a part-time job as a junior coach in a high-performance center.
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