Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest paid athlete in the world in 2023, according to the list of Forbes magazine that places Leo Messi and Kylian Mbappé in second and third position, respectively.
The Portuguese leads this ranking -which analyzes the world business of sports stars from May 1, 2022 to May 1, 2023- with some revenue of 136 million of dollars thanks, to a large extent, to the 75 million that he earns a year as a salary at Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia.
Ronaldo earned 90 million from his endorsements and other businesses off the pitch while he received 46 million for his performance on the field (Forbes considered for his calculation what he earned at Manchester United and Al Nassr in addition to the time he spent without equipment).
Cristiano thus snatched the number one from Forbes to Messiwho had been the highest paid athlete in 2022 with 130 million and who appears second in the 2023 list with the same amount (65 million on the field and another 65 off).
Mbappé, the Argentine’s teammate at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), completes the podium with 120 million dollars, of which ‘only’ 20 million came from his activities outside the field of play.
For his part, LeBron James, who this year became the leading scorer in NBA history, ranks fourth with 119.5 million dollars while in fifth position is the Mexican boxer Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez with 110 million.
american golfers Dustin Johnson ($107 million) and Phil Mickelson ($106 million) are in sixth and seventh placerespectively, after his departure from the PGA Tour and his joining the controversial Saudi LIV Golf.
Stephen Curry ($100.4 million), Roger Federer (95.1 millionpractically completely due to their businesses outside of tennis) and Kevin Durant (89.1 million) closed, in this order, the ‘top ten’ of the highest-paid athletes in the world.
2023-05-07 08:31:08
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