It is still unclear whether Avraham Grant will continue with the Zambian national team after the disappointment and elimination already in the group stage of the African Championship.
Even if he does not continue, the Israeli coach should not be too disappointed.
The salary he received, 25 thousand euros per month, was the lowest among all the coaches in the tournament, and low also in relation to what he had become accustomed to over the years.
Grant has been considered one of our top coaches for over 30 years, but he only started making the big money in the middle of the first decade of the millennium.
It was in 2006, Grant Abhiri was then after successful campaigns in the Israeli national team, when he received an offer from businessman Lev Laviv to coach Hapoel Tel Aviv, which he was supposed to buy.
According to the reports, Grant's expected salary in Adom was NIS 4 million per season, but in the end the deal fell through and Babev did not acquire the ownership.
However, the move connected LeGrant with Leviev (who paid part of his said salary as a sign of appreciation) and other businessmen who introduced him to their friends in England such as Kobi Maimon, Arkady Gaidamek and one named Roman Abramovich.
Familiarity with the latter led to Grant's appointment as Chelsea's professional manager and a member of the board.
The real sensation came in September, when Grant was appointed manager of the most expensive team in the world at that time in place of Jose "the special" Mourinho.
Abram Grant.
Will he continue in the Zambia national team?, Photo: AFP
After a year at Chelsea in which he earned a huge sum of NIS 11 million, Grant moved to Portsmouth where his salary reached NIS 7 million per season.
After one season, the coach left and unexpectedly moved to coach West Ham, even there his salary was extremely high - 5 million dollars per season in a four-year contract.
Grant was fired after a year and received $3.5 million in damages.
In January 2012, he was appointed coach of Serbian Partizan Belgrade for a salary of about 900 thousand euros per season.
For two years, Grant received several offers from different clubs in the world, but only in 2014 did he receive a significant position when he was appointed coach of the Ghana national team.
His salary at that time was 1.4 million dollars per year in addition to 200 thousand dollars as a signing bonus.
Grant led the team to the final of the African Championship where they lost to the Ivory Coast.
In 2018, he was appointed as a technical consultant for Northeast United of the first league in India and according to estimates he earned tens of thousands of dollars a month.
In December 2022, as mentioned, he was appointed to coach the Zambia national team.
Beyond the achievements and appreciation on the field, Grant has accumulated over the years assets and acquaintances with senior officials in the Israeli economy.
In 2012, he purchased bonds worth approximately 6 million shekels for the billionaire Kobi Maimon, years later he was a shareholder in the "Olympia Zone" company with his partner former star Avi Namani. The two purchased a business complex in the Kiryat Atidim neighborhood in Tel Aviv that contained approx. - 3 workspaces of different sizes. The cost of the project was estimated at 3 million dollars.
Abram Grant comforts John Terry after missing the penalty in the Champions League final in 2008, photo: AP
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In addition to his investments, Grant frequently lectures in Israel and around the world on success, leadership, dealing with crises and more.
The coach earns tens of thousands of shekels and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars for the lectures.
All these figures make him one of the richest football players in Israel, although the full value of his fortune is unclear.
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