The top 20 richest footballers

Gerard pique, Barcelona
Pique has a lucrative deal with Nike

#12 Ronaldinho: Net Worth - $90m

Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho was arguably one of the best in his time

Ronaldinho has a total net worth just under $100m . Although not part of the elite group of footballers, anymore, Ronaldinho has continued to earn the big bucks.

Apart from the $10 million annual salary for his tenure with Barcelona, Ronaldinho also had stints with Atletico Mineiro where he bagged €2.7 million a year and was a member of Querétaro FC on a bumper €2.5 million per year contract.

Ronaldinho appeared in ad campaigns for Pepsi and Nike and has endorsement deals with Gatorade and Denon. He also has houses in Spain and Brazil and usually pulls in about $2 million in endorsements annually.

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In 2015, Ronaldinho was the sixth most popular person on Facebook with 31 million Facebook fans.


#11 Didier Drogba: Net worth - $90m

Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba at the Montreal Grand Prix celebrated by TAG Heuer

Didier Drogba is the second richest African footballer behind only Samuel Eto'o. Drogba's earnings sky rocketed after he signed a lucrative deal with Chelsea where he earned an impressive $170,000 a week.

After leaving England, Drogba signed for Shanghai Shenhua where he was given a simply enormous fee of $325,000 a week.

He then moved to Galatasaray where he drew an impressive $5.2 million a year. The Ivorian then returned to Chelsea and now plays in Canada for Montreal Impact where he is sure to be earning pretty big.

Add to that a number of sponsorship deals with Nike, Konami, Pepsi, Samsung and Orange France and it is no surprise he features on this list.

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