German Parmliment Frowns Upon The Burgeoning Brazilian Soccer Baby Trade

Americans are lucky that the closest their government gets to being involved with sports is matching funds to build a stadium. And those officials who are more interested are too busy dealing with steroids than the fact Alex Rodriguez makes more than the teachers in Rhode Island. Combined. This is the total opposite of Germany, where Norbert Lammert, the president of the country’s parliament (!), was complaining about the excessive salaries given to athletes, especially the ones given to Brazilian young’us like Brazil’s Breno.

Lammert pointed to Bayern beating out other European clubs in signing 18-year-old Brazilian defender Breno from Sao Paulo on Dec. 14. Media reports said the transfer cost euro12.3 million (US$17.7 million).

“All sense of proportion is lost, when the richest German club buys a Brazilian youth … and equips him with an income that most family fathers can’t earn with years of hard work,” Lammert said.

Well then maybe those fathers should look into adopting babies from Brazil. Our suggestion would be to find one that goes by a single name, or at least use the Brazilname generator.
German politician calls athlete salaries excessive [USA Today]
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