“Only” 90 million dollars a year – Roger Federer is no longer the highest-earning athlete in the world

Roger Federer spent the special Corona year 2020 at the top of the Forbes list. At $ 106.3 million, the Swiss was the athlete who earned the most. This year, the almost 40-year-old was unable to hold onto the top spot – by no means. Federer has to be content with seventh place and at least 90 million dollars in revenue – despite existing corona restrictions. What is special is that on the court, i.e. with his work as a tennis player, the Basel bidder only earned just under 30,000 dollars. No wonder, the maestro didn’t play for a long time because of his knee injury. But it worked all the better off the pitch with advertising income. The 90 million is the second highest value – only behind the leader.

At the top of the Forbes list this time is mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor. After all, the Irishman made $ 22 million with his sport. Thanks to an unbelievable $ 158 million through the sale of his whiskey label “Proper No. Twelve »he really earned a golden nose.

In second place is Lionel Messi with $ 130 million ($ 97 million from football), Cristiano Ronaldo completes the podium with $ 120 million ($ 70 million from football). The first woman on the Forbes list appears at number 12: tennis ace Noami Osaka from Japan earned $ 60 million, $ 5 million from tennis, 55 million from advertising and other income.

The Forbes list recently expanded its ranking to include the 50 highest-paid athletes. The total earned sum of these 50 people is an incredible 2.8 billion dollars. At the very bottom of the list – on the shared 48th place – there are illustrious names such as Canelo Alvarez (boxing), Andres Iniesta and Robert Lewandowski (both football). They all made $ 34 million – that’s not a small amount.