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Expanding on this, in the Netherlands, the lowest tier of professional football clubs regularly lose players to the highest tier of amateur clubs. They'll suddenly want to play for the "love of the game", meanwhile accepting a high paying job at the amateur club's main sponsor.
Does the Netherlands have semi-pro leagues too, where there are some pro players and the rest of the team is amateurs?
AFAIK the lowest paid players in the UK make about 20k pounds per year. For many of them, they are basically playing for the love of the game at that point, because they could be making more money doing just about any other job. Sometimes on semi-pro teams, the pro athletes make less than their amateur teammates, because the amateur teammates have high paid office jobs. But, as you said, sometimes those office jobs are a bit suspect.
I'm not sure, if we have semi-pro then it's more like maybe a few k each year. Also first league has quite a few players who need additional income, the pay as a player is too low, especially the players who don't play a lot will get paid on a per match base.