As a soccer player in the American professional league, you don’t have to make any effort to compare your own income. The players’ union publishes the players’ salaries and bonuses. So Kai Wagner knew that with his total package of 701,000 dollars (around 650,000 euros) he was once again far away from one of the top places in the money rankings – even in his own team.
And that despite the fact that the 27-year-old Swabian, who has been playing for the Philadelphia Union since 2019, was named to the All-Star selection in both 2021 and 2022 and was subsequently voted one of the best eleven players in the league by an expert jury.
