Footballers in top-flight leagues are among the world’s highest-paid workers, earning thousands of dollars weekly.
For most African footballers who ply their trade in such leagues, they make enough money to take care of themselves and their families back home.
From time to time, some of them share bits of their “hotel, even castle-like” edifices with social media users.
The residences of Asamoah Gyan (The Basilica) and that of Togolese star Emmanuel Adebayor, are popular with social media users.
Nigerian star, Odion Ighalo, has also granted a restricted tour of his multimillion-dollar mansion to a Nigerian journalist, Oma Akatugba.
Speaking on what motivated him to build that kind of house, the former Man United forward said he hatched the dream during his days at Watford.
At the time, he said he did not even have the funds to build that kind of house, “it took three to four years before …