History of number 13 from Michael Ballack

The captain position in one team is one of the big position on the team. He became the leader for his friends to against the enemy. Became a captain in club or national team is no easy to do. He has to show his leadership on the field for the team success.
As a captain, the player not have to scored a goal or give a good assist to the another player. But his situation became the most important things.
Usually the captain team is a player who has a big experience, has a stable emotional and also stable in his performance. Well, that is Ballack to do in his national team, Germany at world cup 2006. Play in he own country and became the host and also playing in front of his people is hard work to do. And even he became the captain of Germany national team.


But, there is a weird thing from Ballack. He always use number 13 on his shirt`s club or national team. In Chelsea, Kaiserslautern, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich and even in national team he always use number 13. As we know, number 13 in human life is brought bad luck for the user. Why Ballack always use the number 13?
Well, the number 13 in Ballack`s costume has a history for his life. Some people may be wondering why Ballack use number 13 and why he prefer number 13 than number 10?
The number 13 began in Ballack `s life when he joined Leverkusen. “it was Rudi Voeller number`s” in Leverkusen. Rudi Voeller ends up his carrier and became the Football Director while Ballack joined Leverkusen.
And then Voeller told to Ballack to use number 13 on Leverkusen`s costume to replace Rudi Voeller on Bayer Leverkusen field. Ballack said yes and until now he always use the number 13.
Well, what kind of number that the football players use, if the players have a stars characters or even football characters, he always became a big football players in world. Michael Ballack has prove that.

Player Contract

Usually, when the offering from some club was accepted by the club`s player, there are plenty paper that the agent and the club have work to do. The paper is talking about the player contract which very important paper for both clubs. Well, what is exactly that the agent and the club discuss about the contract?
1. Salary
Today, some players want to move from one club to bigger club is because of the salary. As we know, if some player called “from hero to zero” he made in little club and bigger club interesting to buy him, automatically the salary is different. In this case, the agent`s player talk about how much money that his client earn and about the progress in the future.
2. Signing on fee
Signing on fee is a payment for the players because his transfer cost. From the meaning of Signing on fee, the players earn some money from the club which sold him.
3. Loyalty bonus
This bonus given by club to the player because he play for the club. Usually, the player received the bonus at his last game at the end of his contract.
4. Appearances
This bonus given because the Player play very good for the club. And the player always became the starting lineup. If he could play much, he will earn money much.
5. Goals and Assist bonus
Well, this bonus usually received by midfield, striker and maybe defender. This bonus given to the players if them could make an assist and score much.
6. Clean sheets bonus
If a goal keeper could defend his keeper from the enemies for one match, he could earn some money because he fought to defend his keeper from scored. This bonus called clean sheets.
7. Another bonus
Well, if you playing in little club that the club`s purpose is still in the first league, and you bring the club in the safe position in the league, you could have bonus. This bonus depends on a deal between the club and the player, like if some player bring a trophies for the club, club give him some money because his hard work.
8. Image rights ownership
This is a bonus for the player whose have became an icon like David Beckham. He became a stars from his advertisement`s club. So, the club giving him some money from the sold.

Step by step to transfer a player in football/ soccer

First Step


The transfer player started when a club or many clubs give an offered paper to a player who has a club. After the club`s player received the paper, the club has an authority to accept or to reject the offered. Both of the clubs including the player`s agent could be continue the offering. The agent who trusted by the player, try to make a new negotiation with the club, until the transfer deal happen.
Club which has a player also could be contact the player`s agent to make a potential transfer. Well, this situation could be happened, if the players do not needed by the club anymore. The agents also have an authority to contact the club to offering his player to play in the clubs. And you could see this on summer transferred, players usually have out of contract brand. But, not all players who do not needed by the club, did not have a quality skill. Usually the players feel that he want to face a new challenge or may be has a problems with the clubs.

Second Step
Well, if the offering was accepted by the club`s player. The player is not sure moved to the club which interesting to him. The player`s agent still have a work to do. He has to finish all about personal contract for the player with the interesting club.
The personal contract negotiation could take a long time to finish. Even, the club accepted the offering from interesting club the players could refused to move to another clubs. This happen because the personal contract did not that he expected. So, in this situation the player`s agent has a main authority. He acted as a bridge between the player and the interesting clubs.

Third Step
The player`s agent have made his player sign the personal contract and his player ready to moved. This is the new part for the agent. The agent get paid by someone side for the transfer deal. In some case, the agents get paid from the club which bought his client.

Fourth Step



Well, all the personal contract have been signed, and the player`s agent also get paid for his work. So, the transfer documents have to given to Football association in the country which became his club.
If all stuffs are ready, the player will be has a medical test. And he will introduced by the buyer club to the public as the club`s player.