2nd place is LIV Golf Yon Lam Impact of aggressive investment by Saudi sovereign wealth fund 3rd place Lionel Messi, 4th place Lebron James
Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) has been ranked as the ‘Import King’ among sports stars around the world in the past year.
On the 16th (Korean time), Forbes, an American economic magazine, estimated the income of sports players over the past 12 months and released the ‘2024 World Sports Player Income Rankings’.
Forbes reported that soccer star Ronaldo earned $260 million (approximately 351.2 billion won) from May 1, 2023, to May 1, 2024, the period covered by the income calculation, making him the highest earner among sports players around the world. It was announced that
This amounts to approximately 960 million won per day, or 40 million won per hour.
It is estimated that Ronaldo receives an annual salary of $200 million from Saudi Arabian professional soccer club Al-Nasr and has contracts worth $6 million with various sponsors, including Nike. 슬롯사이트
Jon Lam (Spain), who transferred to LIV Golf starting this season, ranked second with $218 million.
While Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund (PIF), with a capital of $600 billion (approximately 800 trillion won), is taking the lead and investing aggressively in the sports industry, players from Saudi professional soccer and professional golf LIV ranked first and second in the rankings.
Lionel Messi (Argentina), who earned $135 million, came in third place.
Messi, who plays for Inter Miami in Major League Soccer (MLS), receives $7 million from sponsorship contracts alone.
NBA Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James (USA) ranked 4th with $128 million, NBA Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece) ranked 4th with $111 million. It ranked 5th. 메이저사이트
Soccer stars Kylian Mbappe ($110 million, France), Neymar ($108 million, Brazil), and Karim Benzema ($106 million, France) followed in 6th to 8th place.
9th place is NBA star Stephen Curry ($102 million, USA), and 10th place is NFL player Lamar Jackson ($101 million, USA).
For the first time since the Forbes compilation, the top 10’s income for the past year each exceeded $100 million.
Their total income was $1.38 billion, breaking the previous record of $1.11 billion recorded last year. 토토사이트 순위