1) Highest annual earnings for a footballer
When you become a highly successful athlete with millions of followers around the world you are bound to be one of the most sought after by brands to endorse products. A player like Cristiano Ronaldo who is probably the most marketable sports personality currently is bound to earn a lot from endorsements.
He is paid a whopping 32 million Euros by Real Madrid alone. He represents one of the biggest sportswear brands in the world in Nike. He is also endorsed by Coca-Cola, Tech giants Samsung among others.
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All these endorsements and several other sources we probably don’t even know off sum up to a grand earnings total of $80 million. To throw some perspective of where that figure stands it easily beats the highest earning actor Dwayne Johnson’ by a good $27 million or so.
In fact this year according to the latest Forbes list, he tops the highest earning athletes list.
