Football is one of the most lucrative sports in the world and helped many people to improve their level of finance. Let’s look at 15 players who were very poor, but thanks to football are living a luxury life today.

14.Adriano

Adriano

Before Adriano ever kicked a ball for the Inter Milan, he was a young boy stuck in poverty stricken Rio de Janeiro favela Vila Cruzeiro.

13.Yuri Zhirkov

Yuri Zhirkov

For the Saint Petersburg star, football was initially a way to escape an extremely poor life at his home that saw the six members of his family crammed into a one-bedroom apartment in their home town.

12.Alexander Hleb

Hleb

At his young age, Hleb couldn’t afford even a single pair of worn-out boots and spent his time playing on concrete pitches in Minsk.

11.Robinho

Robinho

Robinho’s childhood was spent honing his skills on the streets of Sao Vicente. It was Pele himself who swooped to bring the young talent to Santos.

10.Antonio Cassano

Antonio Cassano

Cassano’s father abandoned the family before his son was old enough to even know what had happened. Life was difficult thereafter, with the boy’s mother struggling to support the family.

9.Samuel Eto’o

Eto'o

Samuel Eto’o has no photographic record of his childhood because his family was unable to pay for a Camera. He is the richest African footballer today.

8.Dante

Dante

When he was a kid, Dante spent his time with a ball at his feet in the car park of the supermarket where his mother worked as a cashier.

7.Yaya Toure

Toure

Toure started playing football without shoes. He owned his first boots at the age of 10. “Boots were very expensive,” Toure told The Guardian in 2011. “And when there are seven in your family and you say you want to buy a pair of boots your father wants to kill you. “I just had a normal African childhood.’’

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