The German professional footballer, who has also played for Chelsea in his long soccer career, has pled to reduce his speeding fine on ‘poverty’ ground. That means, he pleaded to the judge that since he has no income, his fine should be reduced to an affordable figure. The poverty excuse is big news than his fine, coz he happens to be a Former German’s international team captain and once a millionaire, than how come he became so poor that he can even afford a tiny fine for his class of players? In his entire career he played for Chelsea, Bayern Munich, and as many as 98 caps for his county along with Germany national team. Basically, he was imposed with a two-year Spanish driving ban along with €10,000 fine coz he was found driving his Audi U7 at a speed of 211 kilometers per hour in Trujillo which is much above the local 75 miles per hour speed limit.
His lawyer argues in his favor and said since he has been a famous soccer player, doesn’t mean that he is still a rich individual anymore. Perhaps, he cited his no-income flow as the basis of his fine reduction plea. His lawyer asked the judge to reduce the fine by 90% to bring it down to just €1000. This is very much unbelievable to everyone coz he is the player who used to charge £131,000-a-week for his four years term with Chelsea alone forget his other professional assignments. Perhaps, he joined Chelsea from Bayern Munich in 2006 and earned between £80,000 and £120,000 a week during his four years contract with Chelsea. At the height of his career, he was termed as one of the best midfielders in the world, but his serious ankle injury debarred him from 2010 world cup and later from Chelsea.
Further, his lawyer also said that since speeding is not an offence in Germany, and there too, if anyone is caught driving at more than 70kph, is imposed with a fine of €600 along with a four months driving license’s suspension, and he wanted similar kind of fine in this case too. Since this case doesn’t involve any imprisonment, Ballack was not in the court during second hearing. For now, all the arguments from both the parties have completed and a probable judgment will be passed on next week.