Japan internationals Hikaru Endo (left) and Dai Kamata at the
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There is an argument to be made that high salaries are to blame for the chronic poor standard of play, is this really the case? Is this true? What is the salary level of working players in Japan?
Recently, 20 teams in Japan's J1 League released their salary expenses, and Kobe topped the list with 4.7 billion 12.4 million yen (100 million yen ≈ 5.8 million yuan people's) coins), which is more than four times that of Kawasaki Frontale's 1.079.6 million yen.
In late 2014, Lotte Group became the team's wholly-owned majority shareholder. The team's owner, Hiroshi Mikitani, has spent a lot of money in successive years, bringing in Podolski, Villa, Iniesta, Vermaelen and other stars. But this has not triggered a "false fire" in Japanese soccer, nor has it prevented Japanese players from leaving the country. Iniesta in Japan to get a super high salary.
How much do J-League stars make?
Looking at the current list of team and player salaries released for the 2021 season in the J-League (excluding recent transfers), there is no doubt that the team with the highest salary expenses among the 20 teams is Kobe Successful Ferry.
