World Cup: National team players carry more than R$ 10 million in watches on their wrists

When recently imitating the presenter Faustão on a TV show, a comedian took care of the caricature and placed a golden watch with the diameter of a frying pan on his wrist. It is a striking feature of Fausto, perhaps the most famous collector of this accessory in the country who, due to the nature of his profession, has the opportunity to exhibit them frequently.

Equally obsessed with designer watches, the players on the Brazilian national team are forced to train and play without accessories, but whenever it happens -whether on the way to the stadium, on trips, at events or interviews-, it’s potato: there they are with real fortunes on the wrist.

“Fortunes” in this case is not force of speech. While tasting chunks of meat with gold in Qatar, days ago, Brazilian defender Éder Militão wore a Rolex Daytona Rainbow model valued at US$ 570,000 (something around R$ 3 million). Thiago Silva, captain of the national team, also invests heavily and, in a recent press conference, showed the world his Vanguart Black Hole Tourbillon: US$ 340,000, around R$ 1.7 million. The request of F5, the Watch Me In Brazil website evaluated the watches of eleven players from Brazil.

The taste for designer watches is part of the universe of world football. Abroad, the most expensive one that has news is that of the French striker Benzema, from Real Madrid. Cut from the national team due to injury on the eve of the start of the competition, he usually wears an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Openworked Frosted Rainbow on his wrist in his leisure time. Price? US$ 695 thousand, something around R$ 3.6 million.

The Egyptian Salah, Liverpool striker, parades with Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon, which is worth US$ 200,000. The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, the French Mbappé, and the Polish Lewandowski are also collectors of watches and are impressive for the jewelry they have.