{"id":19324,"date":"2019-08-19T20:59:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=19324"},"modified":"2019-08-19T20:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:59:38","slug":"do-you-really-need-this-five-bizarre-purchases-made-by-famous-footballers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/08\/19\/do-you-really-need-this-five-bizarre-purchases-made-by-famous-footballers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Really Need This? Five Bizarre Purchases Made by Famous Footballers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know there are a lot of athletes with bizarre hobbies. This applies especially to football players, who have very high salaries and are famous for using their money to purchase some &#8220;strange&#8221; stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Today we will introduce you to come of the craziest purchases made by footballers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19325\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19325\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/08\/Aubemayang-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit:Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past, he bought a metal-silver Lamborghini. Everything seems so normal at this point except for one thing&#8230;<br \/>\nHe decided to paint the car with rainbow colors.<br \/>\nThe cost was \u00a3240,000.<\/p>\n<p>Aubameyang is famous for being a car collector&#8230;.however, this time he might have noticed that this car was a little\u00a0<em>too <\/em>stylish.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 he decided to sell it but no buyer emerged.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZdcAyAhDIj\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZdcAyAhDIj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Starting the week like &#8230; \ud83d\ude80 #playfree #A\u26a1<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aubameyang97\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Aubameyang<\/a> (@aubameyang97) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-09-25T10:03:51+00:00\">Sep 25, 2017 at 3:03am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19326\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19326\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/08\/Ribery-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Franck Rib\u00e9ry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On January 2019, during the winter break, he went to Dubai just for eat one strange thing.<\/p>\n<p>He went to a famous steak restaurant and he ordered a &#8220;steak covered of gold&#8221;!!<\/p>\n<p>The price was around \u00a31,000. Crazy price for ONE PIECE of meat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BsKraMLCdBP\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BsKraMLCdBP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No better way to start the year than with a dash of salt and a visit to my Turkish brother \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7\ud83d\udc4c\ud83c\udffc #SaltBae #fr7\ud83d\udc51 #ELHAMDOULILLAH\ud83e\udd32\ud83c\udffd\u2665\ufe0f @nusr_et<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/franckribery7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Franck Rib\u00e9ry<\/a> (@franckribery7) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-01-03T09:09:57+00:00\">Jan 3, 2019 at 1:09am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19329\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19329\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/08\/CristianoRonald-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit:Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When he still was a Real Madrid player, Ronaldo went to see an exhibition of Hollywood stars wax statues.<\/p>\n<p>He liked these statues so much, he decided to ask the creator to make one of himself.<\/p>\n<p>The cost was 30.000 euros. For Ronaldo, who gave an entire island in Greece as a wedding present to his agent, buying this statue was sure like buying a &#8220;little toy&#8221; for himself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19330\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19330\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/08\/Balotelli-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit:Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mario Balotelli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Balotelli love to do strange things. For him, even choosing which animal to keep as a pet can&#8217;t be normal&#8230;.<br \/>\nNo cats and no dogs&#8230;.when he was a Milan player, he decided to buy a &#8220;little pig&#8221; as a domestic animal.<\/p>\n<p>His (her?) name is &#8220;Super&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Finally my little pig arrived! She is only 2 month old! Is a she but i called her SUPER! \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/6rMaRE9wox\">pic.twitter.com\/6rMaRE9wox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mario Balotelli (@FinallyMario) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FinallyMario\/status\/365791221735624704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19331\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19331\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/08\/Ibrahimovic-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine Zlatan seated down in a normal real estate agency to buy a house? We can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He obviously prefers to be different, so he chose to buy a &#8220;church&#8221; in Stockholm!!<br \/>\nThe cost was around \u00a310m. He then undertook a renovation of the building, transforming the church in a high-quality mansion for himself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know there are a lot of athletes with bizarre hobbies. This applies especially to football players, who have very high salaries and are famous for using their money to purchase some &#8220;strange&#8221; stuff. Today we will introduce you to come of the craziest purchases made by footballers. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang In the past, he bought a metal-silver Lamborghini. Everything seems so normal at this point except for one thing&#8230; He decided to paint the car with rainbow colors. The cost was \u00a3240,000. Aubameyang is famous for being a car collector&#8230;.however, this time he might have noticed that this car was a little\u00a0too stylish. In 2017 he decided to sell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/08\/19\/do-you-really-need-this-five-bizarre-purchases-made-by-famous-footballers\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Do You Really Need This? 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