How much do Ángel Mena and Aníbal Chalá, recent finalists of the Apertura 2021, charge per year in the MX League?

How much is the minimum that a footballer earns in the MX league ?, was the question posed this Monday by the website of THIS a week after the coronation of Atlas in the Apertura-2021 tournament of Mexican soccer.

In a note titled ‘The salary mass in Liga MX is more than 180 million dollars, do they deserve those salaries?’ THIS collects data published by Salary Sport, portal that tracks and collects salaries for different sports, from soccer, basketball or tennis to cricket or ice hockey.

According Salary Sport, Ecuadorian defender Aníbal Chalá, brand new champion with Atlas, who signed him last September from French Dijon, where he was on loan from Toluca, receives an annual salary of $ 378,000, 7,267 per week, and is the seventh highest paid player Of the template.

The highest salary is held by the Colombian Camilo Vargas and the Argentine Julio Furch, 824,629 dollars a year each; and the Mexican Luis Reyes follows with 687,274 dollars.

At the club level, Tigres de Monterrey is the team with the highest payroll, reaching more than 26 million dollars with Frenchman Florian Thauvin who perceives almost $ 6 million as the highest paid element in Liga MX. Meanwhile, Mazatlán has the lowest wage bill with $ 3.5 million.

Below him are André-Pierre Gignac ($ 4’679,844), from Tigres; the Mexican Guillermo Ochoa ($ 4’494,727), from America; the Dutch Vincent Janssen ($ 2’270,695), from Monterrey, and the Argentine Guido Pizarro ($ 1’858,175), from Tigres.

As for the numbers of the big ones, America is one notch below Tigres with total expenses of 18’929,621 dollars.

The runner-up of the Apertura-2021, León, closes the top 5 of teams with the highest salary mass and annual salaries, reaching $ 11,718,569. The player who receives the most in the emerald team is the Mexican Elías Hernández with an annual amount of $ 1,237,017, ahead of his compatriot Rodolfo Cota and the Ecuadorian international Ángel Mena, who earn $ 962,129 per year.

In addition, Salary Sport publishes that the lowest salary of a Liga MX player per year is 4,128 dollars, that is, almost 86,000 Mexican pesos.

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