‘We do not recognize ourselves in the Babel agreement at all in the Netherlands’
Statements by Ryan Babel about the percentage of football players who go bankrupt after their graduation are incorrect. That is what Ben-Ivar Kolster, financial coach of the players’ union VVCS, says to the General Newspaper.
In a major interview in the AD, Babel noted that more than seventy percent of football players go bankrupt within five years of the start of their career. Those figures are refuted by Kolster. “We do not recognize ourselves in the pronunciation of Babel in the Netherlands,” it sounds. “These kinds of stories, especially from the Premier League and the NBA, where it is said that 50 percent will go bankrupt within five years and end up in prison above average.”
In the Netherlands, professional football players are guided from the start of their career, so the van Babel can count on little. “Those are huge figures that he falls and we cannot place those figures,” says Arco van der Veer, director of the CFK Foundation. “We see bankruptcy very much. Parties that sporadically base themselves on foreign figures. Especially in the Netherlands, it is well organized thanks to the CFK scheme.”
That arrangement for those football players has to pay 25 percent of their salary to a foundation, which they have a piggy bank after their career. “Young professionals are often critical of it, but in the end they are always enthusiastic. Research also shows that 98 percent of the retired professionals found that the scheme has helped. It has helped a black hole. A study, stage of job.”
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