Oatesy's already an ambassador for Brisbane Marine and Austral Volkswagen so I'd expect he gets his car and boat separately from his contract. He's got a pretty decent setup too, I wouldn't want to have to pay for it myself.
True.
I can't believe athletes in Australia aren't seeking endorsement deals... in the US the pro athletes make 2-3 times more from their endorsements than they do on their actual salary
Yes and no. There are some pretty big differences between Canada Jr and here. The seppos have all those major companies based in their country, with 300 million cashed up fatsos and a global audience. People on every continent could tell you about Michael Jordan and he retired yonks ago. Whereas for footy players we have an audience of ten to twenty million and none of those big shoe or apparel brands are actually based here and our media would much rather find some way to pronounce the code as being in crisis rather than actually promote it. Plus you can wear basketball shoes as an everyday thing, not quite the same with footy boots.
Lots of the players have their own boot sponsership, you can normally tell if they are constantly wearing the newest model, the boot sponsorship (from puma I think) is more for the younger players that can’t get a endorsement deal
