Soccer
Arturo Vidal, a professional Chilena footballer with his full name Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo, currently plays for Bayern Munich and the Chile National team. The 30-year-old midfielder, living happy married life with his wife, Maria Teresa Matus and 2 children, is enjoying a good amount of net worth.
So, how much is Vidal's net worth from his career? How much is his salary? Let's know the details of Vidal's net worth, salary, and achievements along with awards.
Arturo Vidal, playing for Bayern Munich with its team value of $2,713 million, is ranked third on the list of top 10 richest athletes in Chile. He is estimated to have a net worth of $16 million, earned through his professional career.
Let's get into details.
Arturo Vidal, who started his professional career with Colo-Colo in 2005, after a couple of years, got transferred to Bayer Leverkusen in 2007. Leverkusen paid $11 million for the contract along with $7.7 million for 70% ownership, which broke the previous national record of Matías Fernández's transfer to Villarreal worth of $9 million.
With his productive performance in 2011 season, Vidal was offered a deal by Seria A club Juventus and he joined Juventus with a 5-year contract of $12.34 million on July 22 that year. The precise amount of his salary is undisclosed. However, it is estimated to be about £100,000 a week.
Arturo Vidal playing for Juventus
Source: Daily Express
After playing for the Juventus till 2015 season, later, Vidal signed a 4-year contract with Bundesliga club, Bayern Munich on July 28, 2015. The deal worth of $43.49 million(£28 million) offered Vidal a signing bonus of $3.52 million.
Have a look at the Twitter video of Vidal signing in with Munich.
#ServusArturo http://t.co/dI9TZqUmd5
— FC Bayern English (@FCBayernEN) July 28, 2015
In 2016, the Munich's midfielder with his jersey number 23, earned the annual salary of $9.16 million. As of 2017, his precise salary is yet to be revealed, but as estimated he earned $10 million. His weekly wage was €150,000.
Vidal reportedly is enjoying his married life with his wife and son, Alsono and daughter, Elisabetta, but he has not given the details about his current home. But back in 2014, he put his home in Turin for sale.
Earlier the same years, the house was burgled in January 2014, with $176,717 worth of items stolen.
The millionaire player also owns several cars including a 495 Italia manufactured by Ferrari, with its base price $230,000.
Arturo Vidal and his Ferrari 495 Italia
Source: Daily Mail
Many of you might not know that Vidal suffered minor injuries on 16 June 2015, during the 2015 Copa América, when while under the influence of alcohol he crashed his Ferrari in Santiago.
Vidal, who was featured in the Central and South American cover of FIFA 14, alongside global cover star Lionel Messi, wears Nike Magista Obra II but the endorsement price is still undisclosed. The football shoes cost $299.99.
Vidal with his fierce gameplay comes ahead when it comes to Brawl. In October 2017, he was accused of involvement in the fight of hip-hop club Crown, however, he was claimed innocent by the club owner Oliver Reif. But, it's not the first time as he was fined over $1.19 million after getting involved in a fight while in Juventus.
Now time to know about Vidal's achievements.
Arturo with his starting career from Colo-Colo scored 3 goals in the Colo-Colo's Copa Sudamericana 2006 campaign, which brought him in the highlights. Later, he joined Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen in 2007, where he played for four seasons contributing two goals in the club's run to the round of 16 of the UEFA Europa League.
Then moving to Juventus in 2011, he won Scudetti in all of his four seasons and became widely recognized as one of the best midfielders after playing UEFA Champions League Final. He was named to the ten-man shortlist for the 2015 UEFA Best Player In Europe Award on July 15, 2015, was ranked 8th later in August.
Later on July 28, 2015, Vidal joined Bayern Munich and scored his first goal from the penalty spot in the fifth minute of Bayern's first round DFB-Pokal match nominating himself for the 2015 UEFA Team of the Year.
Let's have a look at Vidal's career highlights.
Talking about his International achievement, Vidal after scoring a goal leading Chile to victory against Argentina got voted as Man of the Match. For his performances, Vidal also got named to the 2015 Copa America Team of the tournament.
On 18 June 2017, he scoring his nation's first goal giving the man of the match performance in opening match of 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup against Cameroon winning with 2-0.
But, after having a heavy loss of 0-3 with his own goal against Paraguay, on August 31, 2017, he announced that he could retire from the national team.
Have a look at Vidal's suicide goal.
No news of contract extension with Munich and about his retirement from national team is out yet.
Till then let's wish him best and stay tuned for more updates on Vidal.
