While Arturo Vidal appeared signing his new contract with Bayern Munich, Chile also celebrated. The signing, that definitive decision, became an unexpected gift for others. Three Chilean clubs from different categories will receive part of the 37 million euros that the midfielder's transfer cost, the second most expensive in the history of Germany.
The reason is the FIFA's 'solidarity mechanism', which establishes in its article 21 that if a player is transferred before the age of 23, all the clubs that contributed to his development -until that age- share 5 percent of the total of future transfers.
That will allow, for example, that now the Rodelindo Román Club from Huasco neighborhood in San Joaquín, where Vidal took his first steps, receives 74 million for the transfer of their prodigal son. Before, the 'green' from Oriente Association had already received about 5 million for the transfer of the player to Bayer Leverkusen and about 20 more when he moved to Juventus.
However, it is not the only one benefiting from the new contract. Deportes Melipilla, a team currently playing in the Second Professional Division, will also receive 0.50 of the transfer, something like 145 million pesos for their coffers, thanks to the two years in which the midfielder was registered there.
The biggest share is reserved for Colo Colo, where Vidal made his professional debut and stayed until his first transfer to Germany at the age of 21. The albos will receive in total 2.75 percent of the transfer. In other words, about 1,125,000 dollars for one of the gems of their youth academy.
Bayer Leverkusen also wins
Not only in Chile will Vidal's transfer have rewards. His first club in Germany, Bayer Leverkusen, will also receive a percentage of the transfer under the same concept, thanks to the two years they had the Chilean in their ranks, after paying more than 5 million euros for his transfer in 2007. They will now receive an amount that is around 500,000 in European currency.