The first footballer ever with a bitcoin salary

David Barral, the Spanish striker, has become a new player for Inter Madrid, one of the many teams in the Spanish capital. So what? This transfer would not be relevant, were it not for barral, he will be the first footballer in history to receive a salary entirely in bitcoin. The Madrid club, in fact, which has an agreement with the cryptocurrency company Criptan, which has launched a platform that allows the purchase of cryptocurrencies by bank account or credit card. 

Barral will be the first football player to have an economic relationship with the cryptocurrency club, but not the first sportsman. American football player Russell Okung of the Carolina Panthers had asked, at the time of his move to the new company, to be paid in bitcoin via the Strike platform. In addition, recently, other companies have started to make contact with the cryptocurrency environment, such as AC Milan, which this week announced a partnership with Chiliz, a platform with which the Rossoneri produced their token (the $ACM).