As I described you make a few hundred bucks a months playing in an amateur league, playing in the third league (often the second team of big clubs) gets you a living, playing in the second league you can make a better living and playing in the first league, you can earn really nice money, playing for one of the ~5 top clubs you get to be a millionaire if you are one of the best known of these millionaires you get additional money thrown after you, plus you secured your TV career after your real career is over. You are required to fund a children's sport foundation, though.
For women, you can only make a living in the first league. The distribution is the same. There are no college leagues, where people play at a professional level and get very little money. The whole system is organized around clubs. In rural Germany every village, no matter how small it is, has a church, a choir, a volunteer fire department and a football club. Each of them is at least 100 years old (> 500 for church). All social activity revolves around them. There might be alcohol involved.
For women, you can only make a living in the first league. The distribution is the same. There are no college leagues, where people play at a professional level and get very little money. The whole system is organized around clubs. In rural Germany every village, no matter how small it is, has a church, a choir, a volunteer fire department and a football club. Each of them is at least 100 years old (> 500 for church). All social activity revolves around them. There might be alcohol involved.