The World's Most Millionaire Athletes Of

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Not even adding all the gifts that Santa Claus and the Three Kings will distribute this Christmas, the drunkenness of millions that the world's highest-paid athletes received this year is reached. Well, it may be an exaggeration, but not by much. It only remains to be seen how much the highest-paid athletes in the world of soccer, baseball or the NBA took to their pockets. Between salaries, bonuses and advertising contracts in 2017, income records continued to be broken.

Which of our sports idols are the ones that charge the most? A difficult question, since the contracts are confidential on many occasions and not even the tax authorities themselves are aware of the true income, as the allegations of tax evasion against some of the biggest stars of the Spanish soccer league have crowded. Luckily Forbes magazine is responsible for calculating these fortunes every year and this is the result of their inquiries.

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

The Real Madrid star is by now the highest-paid athlete in the world, with total annual income from that the Argentine star of FC Barcelona could be bought if he wanted with the $ 80 million that his bank accounts receive each year, of which $ 53 million they are salary and bonuses. The forward born in Rosario is not much to brag about his wealth, but if he has it, he has it. Even more so with the new contract he signed this year with the Barça club, which will probably make him next year the highest-paid athlete on the planet.

4. Roger Federer

The sleek Swiss tennis player continues to break court records at 36, an age when more than one racquet legend has retired. While surely your biggest incentive to stay active is to enlarge your trophy room, the checks you're still getting aren't bad. According to Forbes, the Swiss athlete earned $ 63 million, the vast majority from his advertising contracts.

5. Kevin Durant

If the talented Washington DC-born forward laughed when he played for the Oklahoma City Thunder, since his transfer last season to San Francisco's triumphant Golden State Warriors, it's all out loud. Earn on the court alongside talented Stephen Curry and win at the bank with his $ 26.6 million salary and bonus, plus another $ 34 million in advertising and other concepts.

What envy, right? Yes, why deny it. If we had his talent….