General Discussion

Soccer (fútbol) is, as you may know, often described as "the gentleman's sport played by brutes."

That elitist saw is based on the fact that many professional soccer players - particularly in the third world - came from very working-class backgrounds (like the great Lionel Messi) or slums outright.

As success mounts, they begin to run into what had been an unfamiliar problem to most of them: taxes.

Their (typically right-wing) lawyers and accountants, Cuban cigar in hand, then begin regaling them with tales of how much more they could have "if it weren't for these damned leftist governments, who then take your money and give it to lazy blacks (and/or steal it themselves)."

And so before long, the naive, eager-eyed young fútbol star becomes a rabid right-winger - and an inveterate tax cheat.

Moving his family to some wealthy gated community often adds to this new-found conservatism.

And if a right-winger cheats them (as former Argentine President - and Trump pal - Mauricio Macri did to star forward and RW convert Carlos Tévez)?

It's apparently all in the game.