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Baseball player Jones highest paid Dutch sportsman

January 26th, 2009 | By: Jan | 20 Comments »

Baseball player Andruw Jones again is the Dutch sportsman bringing home the most bacon. The 31 year old LA Dodgers player is the winner for the fourth time in a row, with 17 Mio euros per annum.

Edwin van der Sar jumped from the fifth position to number 3.

Ruud van Nistelrooy is number 2 with 8.2 mio euros. Seedorf had to concede some spots. The former number 3 is now number 7 on the list, published by Dutch magazine Sportweek.

The top ten (amounts in euro’s):
1 (1) Andruw Jones (baseball) 17.000.000
2 (2) Ruud van Nistelrooy (voetbal) 8.200.000
3 (5) Edwin van der Sar (voetbal) 6.100.000
4 (4) Mark van Bommel (voetbal) 6.000.000
5 (9) Rafael van der Vaart (voetbal) 5.200.000
6 (6) Arjen Robben (voetbal) 5.100.000
7 (3) Clarence Seedorf (voetbal) 4.900.000
8 (16) Wesley Sneijder (voetbal) 4.800.000
9 (11) Robin van Persie (voetbal) 4.600.000
10 (10) Dirk Kuyt (voetbal) 4.300.000

Remarkable climbers:
- Edwin van der Sar from 5 to 3 with 6,1 mio euro
- Wesley Sneijder from 16 to 8 with 4,8 mio
- Royston Drenthe from 29 to 12 with 3,4 mio
- Ryan Babel from 36 to 13 with 3,3 mio
- John Heitinga from 31 to 15 with 3 mio
- Klaas Jan Huntelaar from 30 to 20 with 2,5 mio

Down:
- Clarence Seedorf from 3 to 7 with 4,9 mio
- Anky van Grunsven (horses) from 12 to 32 with 1,6 mio
- Roy Makaay from 8 to 35 with 1,6 mio

Tags: Drenthe, Group C, Makaay, Nistelrooy, Sar, Seedorf, Sportweek

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Comments

By finnster01 | January 27th, 2009 at 4:53 am

Jan, just curious, who is the highest paid Eredivisie player and what does he make?

By ian | January 27th, 2009 at 10:05 am

does anyone think this would work?

——-Stekelenburg

boulahrouz–heitinga–mathijsen

—de jong–van bommel—-

-afellay–vdv–sneijder–robben

——–van persie

3-6-1

By finnster01 | January 27th, 2009 at 10:14 am

need kuyt in there to run them ragged

By Caleb | January 27th, 2009 at 11:46 am

Are these numbers just from their salaries, or does it include any advertising/sponsorship money as well?

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By Bob | January 27th, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Great question, Caleb. My guess is that the numbers represent “salaries”, annual pay received by contract. On another issue, how is Andru Jones “Dutch”?

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By Lowiesje | January 27th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

@Bob; Andruw Jones is from Aruba and born there, I think (at least hes from the Dutch Antilles), and therefore automatically a citizen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Btw; didn’t realize Anky’s a millionaire… Unbelievable Drenthe earns that amount of money at this young age…

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By Jan | January 27th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

This is basic salaries. Some will make as much in promotional stuff. I think Makaay at the moment is Holland’s top dog in terms of salaries, although Gabri, Suarez, Simons and Koevermans will be close…

By Carlos | January 27th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

Off topic – Barry Maguire has been selected by Ireland Under 21 !

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By Carlos | January 27th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

Oh and Sar now holds the record for cleansheet minutes in the EPL !

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By Andrew | January 27th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

@Ian, replace Afellay with Kuyt, and not a big fan of Heitinga, move Boula more inside and play Zuiverloon on the right—other than that, its a line up that is well worth considering. Would get VDV in a spot closer to goal where he is most effective.
RE: Jones. The beauty of baseball and its long term contracts from a player’s perspective. Jones has been remarkably unproductive for two years; he in fact restructured his contract to defer a good chunk of his remaining salary so that he would be more attractive to a team that wanted to take a chance on a player who is two years past putting up numbers commensurate with his salary. Can’t blame him though. If some owner is silly enough to guarantee a guy $18m/year coming off a bad year…

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By Mario | January 27th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

Well, for me Boulahrouz is useless. He is the worst player ever to wear an Oranje jersey…it shows the poor competition back there because in Koeman´s and de Boer´s times he would never have been be there and certainly not even called up but now it seems he has plenty of fans due to his tough style to tackle but he has no build up, no attack, no technique, doesn´t score and is not strong in the air…As Tiju says that Kuyt is not Oranje material I support the idea that Boulahrouz should not be considered but Kuyt does.=)…Well, that´s just my opinion.

By ian | January 27th, 2009 at 7:56 pm

aisatti first now Barry Maguire this is really bad news

By ian | January 27th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

so can i have an explanation on the rules, first has he accepted? and if he does is he no longer available for our full team

By Bart | January 27th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

I don’t want anyone on Oranje named Maguire :p I’m sure he’s not that big of a miss anyway.

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By goose | January 28th, 2009 at 2:59 am

@Mario ; im not the biggest Boula fan on this blog but i reckon your comment on him is a bit too strong
remember the worst Oranje teams we made on an earlier post? lots of players have been much wors for Oranje

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By goose | January 28th, 2009 at 3:00 am

btw ; Aisatti told dutch press that he hasnt made up him mind about for what national team he is gonna play

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By Carlos | January 28th, 2009 at 4:52 am

@ian – Only if you have PLAYED for the first team i.e. Oranje or whatever country, then you will be deemed as playing (or not playing) for that country for the rest of your life. Giggs played for England Youth teams, then chose Wales (parents influence). I have heard of a couple of players who sat on the bench for the A team but never played – then they switched countries !

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By finnster01 | January 28th, 2009 at 6:05 am

In addition, FIFA amended the rules again this year so that if you are young enough (forget the age limit, it’s probably 21), and only played in a friendly you still could switch teams if you are legible.

As Carlos says, the minute you play in a “real” FIFA sanctioned game, you are stuck with that country.

By Caleb | January 28th, 2009 at 10:33 am

Ah ok, so this is just salary. It’d also be interesting to see what total earnings a year would be and how it would change this ranking.

Related, here’s an interesting article about the top ten best paid sports:

http://us-open-golf-betting.com/highest-paid-sports.html

Football/Soccer is only #6, which is the fourth highest team sport, but I’m guessing that’s because they do it by average and there are a lot of soccer players who don’t make very much money. I wonder how the rankings would look if they took the highest paid athlete from each sport and compared them.

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