A family in London is offering $96,000 a year to someone willing to live with them and help turn their 2 sons into professional soccer players
- A job advert is seeking a nanny to teach two young boys to become professional soccer players.
- The job reportedly pays an incredible £75,000 ($96,000) per year.
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A family in London wants to recruit a former soccer player to teach their young sons to become the next Lionel Messi, and they will pay up to £75,000 ($96,000) per year.
The job does entail "childcare duties" but also includes three two-hour after-school sessions of soccer practice, as well as an "intensive" three-week soccer camp in the summer, as the family hopes their eight and 10-year-old sons into full-time athletes in the sport.
In the job ad, the mother writes that both parents are "willing to do pretty much anything to make sure our sons are able to follow their dreams" after her husband "was pushed down a more academic route by his parents" when he was young.
"This is something we never want to do to our boys. They're both incredibly talented and easily the best in their teams, even at 8 and 10 years old," she goes on.
"Obviously we know our requirements are unconventional, and a nanny with experience and contacts in professional football is like asking for a unicorn, but we can pay a £75,000 annual salary for the right candidate"
The full job advertisement was posted on Childcare.co.uk.
Read it here:
A £75,000 ($96,000) annual salary may seem steep for a soccer-obsessed nanny, as this effectively means almost $500,000 over five years, which would be the soonest the oldest child could get recruited by a professional club.
But consider this: the average basic pay in England's top division, the Premier League, is almost £3 million ($3.8 million) per first-team player, per year, according to the Global Sports Salaries survery conducted by Sporting Intelligence.
It may therefore not take long for the family's investment to pay dividends.