Once a World Cup and Champions League winner, the Milan and Chelsea star has no money to raise children

Marcel Desailly has been devastated by financial problems off the pitch and has been left without a salary. The former Milan and Chelsea player, world and European champion with France, is facing problems with the tax authorities which will soon take him to court.

A collapse following his retirement from football twenty years ago that has now left him practically destitute, penniless and with a 10-year-old son to raise.

According to what "Le Parisien" says next Tuesday in Paris, Desailly will have to appear before a judge to recognize his last biological daughter, Victoria, whom he had with Cosma Batista de Alcantara (his partner from 2010 to 2018) and will also have to pay for her upbringing despite being in a catastrophic economic situation.

The French newspaper tried to investigate his financial situation by speaking to his ex-partner, who was quite clear: "Since I met him, he has always said that he has no money." And in fact, the Frenchman currently does not receive any salary, the last recorded was as a sports commentator for BeIN Sports, which guaranteed him around 8,600 euros per month, but since August he has been without any contract.

Desailly must then repay his debts to the French tax authorities following a 2022 fine for income tax evasion between 2011 and 2019 and is required to pay 5,000 euros each month to repay his debt. His economic situation is so complex that the former player had to sell his property to pay for the upbringing of his four legitimate children and Aida, whom he never knew after her birth in 1990.

Marcel Desailly dhe Paolo Maldini

Marcel Desailly

Marcel Desailly

Marcel Desailly

Marcel Desailly