The 10 Highest Paid Athletes in the World: A Look at the Super Bowl Weekend

This weekend was, in the USA and also in the rest of the world, the weekend of Super Bowl. The final chapter of the NFL American football season, the richest sports league in the world, with record-breaking sponsorships and stellar value franchises. A show like the Super Bowl, which consists of a truly global event rather than a football game, has led us to ask ourselves how much NFL athletes earn and, more generally, how much NFL athletes earn. 10 highest paid athletes in the worldamong which there is also LeBron James.
The ranking of the 100 highest paid athletes was published by Sportico, a website specializing in business in the sports world.

As expected, the ranking opens Cristiano Ronaldo con 275 million of dollars earned in 2023, of which approximately 200 are the result of his contract with Al-Nassr. The rest come from all the sponsorships that a person like Ronaldo, with 621 million followers on Instagram, manages to acquire without too much effort.
On the second step of the podium we find Jon RahmSpanish golfer who won the Masters (the most important seasonal tournament in golf) in 2023. Rahm, during the past year, earned 203 million of dollars, 73 more than Lionel Messithat with 130 million (split perfectly in half between contracts and sponsorships) sits on the third step of the podium.
They close the top five LeBron James con 125,7 million dollars (80 of which sponsorship) e Kylian Mbappé con 125 million. LeBron is therefore the athlete who earns the most in the world through sponsorships, while second place is occupied by Lionel Messi and Tiger Woods with 65 million. Among the top one hundred, there are only nine athletes who earn more from sponsorships than from their contracts or their winnings.

In sixth place we find the influence of Arab football with i 121 million earned by Neymar, 86 of which stem from his contract with Al-Hilal. Then follow three athletes well known to basketball lovers, such as Steph, Giannis and KD. Curry is in seventh place among the highest paid athletes with 98.9 million totals, while they follow closely behind Giannis con 88,4 e Durant con 86,9 millions.
The top 10 closes with a Patrick Mahommes fresh from last night’s Super Bowl victory with his Kansas City Chiefs, which earned him a bonus of around 160 thousand dollars. Not very many if you consider the 84.3 million earned last year, which also included the bonus of 157 thousand dollars for winning last year’s title.

So we just have to wait for thenext year to see how this ranking will have changed and whether Patrick Mahommes will be able to bring home another title and the bonus that comes with it, or whether it will be someone else’s turn to become one of the 10 highest paid athletes in the world.

2024-02-12 18:21:33
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