THE LAST ACT OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Players worth 900 million Euros - in the dance of the final

The final of the World Football Cup isn"t just a major athletic struggle, but also an impressive showcase of people literally worth their weight in gold chasing a ball. The players of the Spanish team have a combined worth of 650 million Euros, whereas those of Holland have 251.8 million Euros. In total, the 44 players of the two teams are worth almost as much as a tranche offered by the IMF.

The World Championship represents a showcase which (a few exceptions notwithstanding) displays the best football players in the world. Before the championship began, the German website transfermarkt.de calculated the worth of each player present in South Africa. According to specialists, at the end of the tournament, the transfer prices for the players of the four teams that reached the semifinals, (Spain, Holland, Germany, Uruguay) will increase by at least 15%.

The great final, which will take place the day after tomorrow on the Soccer City stadium of Johannesburg, will see Spain face off against Holland, with the 94,000 spectators watching from a small distance a mind-boggling 901,800,000 Euros running around (the aggregated value of the players of the two teams).

The worth of the players facing off in the in the third place play off is 422,500.000 Euros (292,500,000 Euros for Germany and 130,000,000 for Uruguay). A simple calculation shows that the combined worth of the players involved in the semifinals was a total of 1,324,300,000 Euros.

It is worth mentioning that the first two players of the world, in terms of their transfer value, Messi (80,000,000 Euros) and Cristiano Ronaldo (75,000,000 Euros) will not have the opportunity of playing in the final, whereas Holland has no players in the top ten. Robben, who has an estimated worth of 38,000,000 Euros, only ranks 16th.