LIONEL MESSI is the world's best
player — and the top paid too.
20 March 2012
The brilliant Barcelona wing
wizard has been tipped to earn a jaw-dropping £27.4million this year from
wages, bonuses, sponsorships and endorsements.
His annual £13m salary gets
topped up nicely through a number of deals with leading global brands,
including adidas and Pepsi, and it seems like the sky is the limit for the
Argentine.
Messi just heads off the enduring
money-making machine that is David Beckham, whose wallet shows no sign of
thinning out despite playing his football in America with LA Galaxy.
Becks, 36, is set to earn £26m as
his worldwide claim shows little sign of diminishing, especially as his latest
deal is to be Samsung's global ambassador for the Olympics.
He leads Real Madrid star
Cristiano Ronaldo, whose wages match his amazing record of 98 goals in 90 games
for the La Liga leaders.
The list of the world's richest
footballers and coaches, complied by France Football, sees Wayne Rooney in
fifth place behind Samuel Eto'o, who plays for mega-rich Russian outfit Anzhi
Makhachkala.
Rooney earns £17m against Eto'o's
£19.3m. The Manchester United striker picks up £8m a season from his latest
five-year contract and, although he ran into trouble with Coca-Cola last year
following off-the-field skirmishes, commercial interest in the England
superstar is soaring again.
Jose Mourinho is the top-paid
coach with £12.3m this year with Real Madrid.
Paris St Germain boss Carlo
Ancelotti is second (£11m) with Barca's Pep Guardiola (£7.88m) third.
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