Messi, one of the world’s highest earning athletes, is being paid partly in cryptocurrency on joining the French team.
Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi will receive payment in cryptocurrency fan tokens as part of his move to French club Paris Saint-Germain, the club announced Thursday, part of the player’s lucrative two-year deal with the team amid soaring popularity for the new assets. Messi is widely considered one of soccer’s best active players and one of the sporting world’s most bankable stars. His decision to join PSG comes at the end of a 20-year association with FC Barcelona—he agreed to join their youth academy at the age of 12—due to the team’s financial limitations.
