Monday, June 2, 2025, 4:02 PM
Santiago Cañizares, one of the greatest legends of Valencia CF, has granted an interview in the podcast of economist Gustavo Martínez in which he talks about the management of money by football players. The Puertollano has the specific matter of his son Lucas, also a professional keeper, and how he tries to advise him.
«My son makes the same appeal that I did. He goes there when I have already come. I tell him: “You will find a curve to the left, then one to the right.” Sometimes he says: “I’m going straight because I think it’s right.” It goes straight, puts the milk, returns and turn right. So one has to experiment, “he explains.
Cañizares tries that your child has no unnecessary costs with luxury items of clothing: «One of the concepts I tried to explain is that it is very good to buy shoes of 500 euros, but if you buy them from 150, they are also fine. The other keeps it and you invest it in financial assets that you are of service to you at a certain moment to have a mattress and save because life is very long ».
For the now sports commentator, life can be very long after football: «Seventeen years I let the football and I don’t imagine the money you spend, better not to have it. It is not because I am a speaker, this is from Zara, I have to see glasses and an iPhone. You will not see me when someone is flashy, but 17 years are a lot if you also have children, free time and want to eat good or want to visit a city «.
That is why Cañizares is of the opinion that it is the right to guarantee a comfortable economic situation, but without excesses as soon as you retire: «Maybe you don’t have to buy a ship, but for a coffee that you will always have. Tomorrow football knew you ».
