The association of MLS players sold the wick this week, lifting the veil on the sporting income of actors of the North American football elite. A common practice in the United States but which with Lionel Messi in the list necessarily makes people talk.
We thus learn that the spearhead of Major League Soccer, which is evolving in the ranks of Inter Miami, future opponent of PSG at the World Cup, collects $ 20.45 million per season, or around 17.6 million euros. However, sponsorship and percentage negotiated on the revenue of the championship diffuser – Apple in this case.
Last May, Forbes estimated the extra-sporting income of the Pulga at $ 75 million. A small victory in his egos war against Cristiano Ronaldo, who would affect him some $ 50 million for his activities outside the football fields. The Portuguese star cheerfully caught up, however, with his purely sporting emoluments.
Ronaldo's dizzying contract
The two coming years promise to confirm this state of affairs. CR7 has extended his Saudi contract with Al-Nassr for two years. For a salary of 200 million euros per year – or € 16.67 million per month, € 550,000 per day, € 23,150 per hour, € 386 per minute and € 6.50 per second, details the Spanish sports daily Marca.
It is therefore a contract promising him ten times more income than Lionel Messi who recently offered himself to CR7. Not to mention the 5% of the capital of the Riyadh club which was granted to him at the start of the year by the famous PIF, the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia.
