Nice Year For Mario

The sea­son might not have been all that impres­sive for Mario Martínez and his Numan­cia team­mates, but all of that neg­a­tive was sand­wiched by two impres­sive moments in his pro­fes­sional and per­sonal life.

Yes, Spain offi­cially entered into reces­sion but the Numan­cia youth player was one peo­ple in Soria that earned a cut of El Gordo, the Span­ish Lottery’s Christ­mas spec­tac­u­lar.  Martínez earned more an amaz­ing €150,000 in the third prize of that country´s lot­tery.  That is exactly 24,000 more than he earns in his cur­rent con­tract. Martínez is one of the least paid players.

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Talk about a crazy end to a year that started with tremen­dous impe­tus for Numan­cia as his goal was the one that gave Barcelona their only loss of the sea­son so far.