How Athletes are Cashing in on the Rapidly Growing Padel

Padel has exploded in popularity in the last five years and some of the worlds most famous athletes are itching to cash in. Today we explore what Padel is, how athletes are getting financial access and where the sport will go from here.
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[@Teisrud]

Played padel for a few years now in Norway, absolutely amazingly fun sport! Great video, btw!

[@TheLongPlayUK]

I haven’t played yet I can’t wait to try it. Appreciate the words 🙏🏾

[@Padelactico]

Insightful vid man! Looking forward to some more :)

[@TheLongPlayUK]

More definitely coming 🙏🏾

[@mikehoole]

Really great vid - keep it up man

[@TheLongPlayUK]

Appreciate you 🙏🏾

[@user-ol2vt1ij3l]

Quality content

[@rom3332]

Football is my main sport, but I’ve always been interested in tennis of any kind, table or og one. Now padel is on the list too 😁

[@SportsSpectrumOTLPodcast]

Thanks for this. Padel is already a big deal in South Africa, but I think it will take a long time to grow in popularity in our country & the continent because of how expensive it is. It doesn’t look like an accessible sport if not in economically-privileged space. Would prefer it in the Olympics over cheerleading though. I’m curious to see how it grows.

[@ObywatellSwiata]

Since I met this sport I only regret that I did it so late.. Here in Spain, Costa Del Sol, you might find padel courts every 5-10km ^^ Amazing sport I love it.

[@richardenow423]

beautiful content

[@TheLongPlayUK]

Thank you Richard, more on the way!

[@Juanmatocco]

Great video! I think there are some other ways to make money with padel with out investing millions like are doing the celebrities. 1. You can organize tournaments together with a club or by renting all the courts of a club. 2. Organize padel camps, for example, I live in Copenhagen and the weather is very bad. People living here will love to go play in the beautiful weather of Spain. Get a coach, talk with a travel agencie and you can organize something awesome.

[@TheLongPlayUK]

Two brilliant ways I hadn’t considered. Your Point 1 is interesting, are local tournaments a common thing?

[@ramy9556]

just one notice bro zlatan hometown is malmo not stockholm but they hate him now in malmo for the reason of buying a share in a team in stockholm and he have a centre in italy in milano too

[@TheLongPlayUK]

Soon as I posted this video I realised I made that mistake 😅

[@mountaindew2656]

Where are you from? Congo?

[@TheLongPlayUK]

Not quite. Try again

[@pierrecoisne9162]

Ibra is not from stockholm, Malmo

[@TheLongPlayUK]

Good spot you are very correct, thank you

[@ramy9556]

i hope your channel grow bro u deserve it

[@TheLongPlayUK]

Appreciate you dude 🙏🏾

[@cmlewan]

Here in Sweden, padel peaked in 2021. Now the courts are going bankrupt.

[@TheLongPlayUK]

Are you seeing a decrease in local interest?

[@cmlewan]

@@TheLongPlayUK People around me doesn’t talk about it anymore. But that may be simply because one or two colleagues of mine changed jobs. So that is just anecdotal evidence of my part. But there is written in the newspaper quite a lot of padel court bankruptcies.

[@MC-nr9gv]

mexican sport

[@TheLongPlayUK]

From 🇲🇽 to the 🌎

[@thepadelguy]

Amazing sport and very addictive 🥎😄