Dominic How, a sports broker for an insurance company was quoted saying, “Most clubs insure their players. If they don't insure their entire squad, they'll probably make sure their highest-value players are insured. Because losing a 10 million pound player (about R131m) to injury means it's worth insuring them.”
Insurance coverage of entire teams is more rare than the norm with many of the poorer nations who can’t afford the policies. For those teams that can purchase a policy, according to the article “most are unlikely to buy a policy that would cover the biggest stars' full wages.”
Football clubs tend to purchase insurance coverage for “their players while they're away from the football pitch too, so crashes in their supercharged cars or slips on nightclub dance floors are also insured.”
Despite the pureness of the game and the spectacle of the World Cup business interests are always lurking in the shadows.
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