Euro 2016: England stars Daniel Sturridge and Ryan Bertrand establishing businesses for life after football

Keen cook: Daniel Sturridge
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They may be multi-millionaires earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a week but England’s star players are also shrewd businessmen on the side, planning for a life after football.

Knowing that their time earning huge salaries will be limited, a number of players are establishing themselves as entrepreneurs to ensure the cash keeps coming in when their legs give out.

Ryan Bertrand is the latest to make the move into the world of finance, setting up an innovative tech brokerage company called Silicon Markets.

The company offers free Artificial Intelligence software to traders and aims to become a “ground-breaking global organisation”.

It is not such a huge leap for Bertrand, 26, who has been trading on the markets since he was 18 after becoming financially aware thanks to his mother Debbie working at Morgan Stanley.

His co-founders are two friends, trading expert Louis Bell and Matthew Kirkham, a financial technology specialist. Bertrand would swap investment tips with Bell when they were fellow Gillingham youth players.

Another England star with business ambitions is Daniel Sturridge, who announced plans to start a food company with his mother after Euro 2016.

Sturridge, 26, who is also a keen cook, wants to share his mother Grace’s culinary skills with a range of Jamaican cooking sauces called “Sturr Crazy”.

Stud: Daniel Sturridge
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He said: “Mum’s secret recipes are inspired by Jamaica, where my grandparents were from and where many of my family were born and still live.”

Sturridge even took a month’s supply to the World Cup in Brazil.

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