Cristiano Ronaldo is far from the top level of club football. But in the game of income, he trumps everyone. The transfer of the Portuguese superstar to Saudi Arabia for the highest fee in football history is reflected in the list of Forbes magazine. Ronaldo is now the highest paid athlete in the world. The 2023 list of the world's highest-paid athletes was published by the American magazine Forbes on Tuesday night. Ronaldo has returned to the top for the first time since 2017, earning a total of 13.6 million US dollars in the last 12 months. According to Forbes, this is the highest income among footballers in history.
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Footballers dominate the top three of the list. Lionel Messi is second with $130 million income, another PSG star Kylian Mbappe is third with $120 million income. Ronaldo was the third highest earner in the last two years. After joining the Saudi club Al Nasr last January with a salary of seven and a half million dollars a year, his income increased a lot. In the last one year, Ronaldo's income from the field has been four million and six million dollars. And nine million dollars from various sponsorship deals off the field. On the other hand, Messi's income on the field and outside the field is equal to six and a half million dollars.
Mbappe has surpassed everyone in the income of the field. The field income of the French forward is 100 million dollars. American basketball legend LeBron James ($119.5 million) and Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez ($110 million) are in fourth and fifth place, respectively. Even after retiring from tennis, Roger Federer has retained his place in the top ten.
The Swiss legend has earned nine million and five million dollars. The court's income is only one hundred thousand dollars!
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