The news of the first trade with Bitcoin in elite professional football made headlines on the portals specialized in this will (19).
Barral is a 37-year-old striker and is now part of the squad for DUX Internacional Madrid. The team currently plays in the Second B of the Spanish Championship, equivalent to the third division.
Trading was facilitated by a Spanish cryptocurrency trading company, Criptan, which is the sponsor of DUX.
However, the amounts involved in the negotiation were not disclosed by the parties.
The club announced on social media the arrival of Barral:
IC FICHAJE 🚨
David Barral new player of Madrid's DUX International ¡Bienvenido al club infinito!Become the first cryptocurrency history record. Thanks to @CRIPTAN_es nuestro nuevo sponsor for making it possible. #Let's Inter #GoDUX pic.twitter.com/Ljf3PInVOn
- DUX Internacional de Madrid (@interdemadrid) January 15, 2021
The first elite football player to be traded in cryptocurrencies, David Barral, began his professional career in 2005 at Real Madrid.
However, that same year he was transferred to team B of the Madrid giant.
So, in total the striker played 50 matches for the Real Madrid team.
In the following years, he played for nine seasons at the also Spanish Sporting Gijón, before transferring to Turkey's Ordu.
He played in the last seasons for Racing Santander, also in the first Spanish division.
in addition, the player also played in Levante (ESP), Al Dhafra (UAE), Granada (ESP), APOEL (CPR), Cadiz (ESP) and Tokushima Cortis (JPN).
Getting paid in Bitcoin is the first step to moving away from the manipulated and corrupt economy
At the end of last year, NFL player Russel Okung became the first elite athlete in American football to start earning his Bitcoin salaries.
At the time, he posted on Twitter:
“The way we deal with money, creation and power, is a form of power. Getting paid in Bitcoin is the first step in moving away from the manipulated and corrupt and manipulated economy in which we all live. ”
Traditional football still crawling in the crypto universe
As in most sports, Bitcoin is still underused in professional football.
One of the reasons for this may have to do with some FIFA rules that, in theory, should oversee player transactions, especially when they take place between teams from different countries.
Thus, there is a lot of resistance to change on this market, as well as a lot of corruption as well.
Therefore, there is still ample room for Bitcoin to be used in sport in the future.
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