The double women’s Ballon d’Or Alexia Putellas will extend her term at FC Barcelona, at the age of 29, and will receive a record salary of one million euros (minimum) per year.
Star player of FC Barcelona and the Spanish selection, with whom she respectively won the Women’s Champions League and the Women’s World Cup this year, Alexia Putellas will be rewarded with an XXL extension with the Blaugrana. As indicated Mundo Deportivothe 29-year-old playmaker negotiated an annual salary of one million euros, before bonuses which could allow her to pocket a total of one and a half million.
The double women’s Ballon d’Or (2021 and 2022) is already one of the highest paid footballers in the world, at 700,000 euros, behind American stars Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. She will therefore overtake Alex Morgan by becoming the player with the highest salary in the world, the American striker nevertheless remaining the richest player each year with her 6 million dollars in advertising contracts.
For comparison, according to estimates from The Team, Marie-Antoinette Katoto was the highest paid player in D1 Arkéma last season with a gross annual salary of 600,000 euros at PSG. Kadidiatou Diani moved from the capital to OL last summer and the best player of the Blues certainly exceeds half a million gross annual salary.
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