Ronaldo, the world’s number one sports player in annual income… 960 million won per day

2nd place is LIV Golf Yon Lam… Saudi sovereign wealth fund’s aggressive investment influence: Lionel Messi in 3rd place, LeBron James in 4th place

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) has been ranked ‘Import King’ among sports stars around the world for the past year.

On the 16th (Korean time), Forbes, an American economic magazine, estimated the income of sports players over the past 12 months and released the ‘2024 World Sports Player Income Rankings’. 파워볼사이트

Forbes reported that soccer star Ronaldo earned $260 million (approximately 351.2 billion won) from May 1, 2023, to May 1, 2024.

The period covered by the income calculation, making him the highest earner among sports players around the world.

This amounts to approximately 960 million won per day, or 40 million won per hour.

It is estimated that Ronaldo receives an annual salary of $200 million from Al-Nasr, a professional soccer team in Saudi Arabia, and has contracts worth $6 million with various sponsors, including Nike.

Jon Lam (Spain), who transferred to LIV Golf starting this season, ranked second with $218 million.

While Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund (PIF), with a capital of $600 billion (approximately 800 trillion won), is taking the lead and investing aggressively in the sports industry, players from Saudi professional soccer and professional golf LIV ranked first and second in the rankings.

Lionel Messi (Argentina), who earned $135 million, came in third place.

Messi, who plays for Inter Miami in Major League Soccer (MLS), receives $7 million from sponsorship contracts alone.

NBA Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James (USA) ranked 4th with $128 million, NBA Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece) ranked 4th with $111 million. It ranked 5th.

Soccer stars Kylian Mbappe ($110 million, France), Neymar ($108 million, Brazil), and Karim Benzema ($106 million, France) followed in 6th to 8th place.

9th place is NBA star Stephen Curry ($102 million, USA), and 10th place is NFL player Lamar Jackson ($101 million, USA).