“The one who has to be well paid is science”

The Minister of Culture and Sports, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribes, admitted that the “exhorbitant” figures of the contract of the Argentine forward of FC BarcelonaLeo messi “collide” in the current context of economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic and considered that science is the one that should be “well paid.”

“We have a problem with what it means, but not now, now it is more visible when there is a crisis situation. That defines us as a society. We have to see things differently. Who should be well paid is science. .. and football too, “he said in statements to Telemadrid that Europa Press collects.

Rodríguez Uribes said that can’t “cap” salary because today’s society is “capitalist”, “open” and is governed by market laws, although he pointed out that, from a moral point of view, it costs more to assimilate contracts of 555 million in just 4 years, according to the newspaper El World.

“We have done something that goes in the opposite direction. We have made a pact between the CSD, LaLiga and the Spanish football federation so that, in the context of the pandemic, television rights, through a foundation, distribute to minority sports that are having a very bad time, “he said.

On the other hand, the Sports Minister was convinced that this summer the Tokyo Olympics. “I think so, the information that comes to me from the International Olympic Committee, and the president of the COE, Alexander White, is that in July we will have the Olympic Games. They will be able to celebrate, although it will not be with full stadiums. They will have their controls and guarantees, but it will be a good moment for humanity to meet again and start the next horizon with force “, he stressed.