Football is the best, Amerifat sports are pathetic >Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo earns more than any other sportsperson, Forbes' annual list of the world's wealthiest athletes shows.
>The influential business magazine's list has been led by either boxer Floyd Mayweather or golfer Tiger Woods for the past decade-and-a-half.
>But with Mayweather retiring and Woods not playing because of injury, the Portugal captain has risen to the top.
>He earned $88m (£60.6m) from salary, bonuses and endorsements last year.
>Ronaldo, 31, is only the second team sport athlete, after basketball superstar Michael Jordan, to have topped the list since Forbes began tracking earnings in 1990.
>His off-pitch earnings of $32m (£22m) include a $13m-a-year deal (£8.96m) with sportswear firm Nike - which has partnerships with half of the top 100 stars.
The three-time world player of the year's most significant football rival, Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi, is second on the list with earnings of $81.4m (£56.1m) last year.
In full, the top 10 list is as follows: ◾Cristiano Ronaldo - football ($88m/£60.6m) ◾Lionel Messi - football ($81.4m/£56.1m) ◾LeBron James - basketball ($77.2m/£53.2m) ◾Roger Federer - tennis ($67.8m/£46.7m) ◾Kevin Durant - basketball (£56.2m/£38.7m) ◾Novak Djokovic - tennis ($55.8m/£38.46m) ◾Cam Newton - American football ($53.1m/£36.6m) ◾Phil Mickelson - golf ($52.9m/£36.46m) ◾Jordan Spieth - golf ($52.8m/£36.39m) ◾Kobe Bryant - basketball ($50m/£34.46m). bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36486999
Logan Parker
>American sports on the decline >lists boxing, golf, tennis and soccer as examples
boxing golf and tennis are not american sports basketball and hockey are canadian handegg is amerifat sport
Mason Price
Those are all better than AfricanCrash and OranguntanSwing, Amerinigger
Ethan Gray
Real Madrid is only worth a few million more than the Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys.
Matthew Bennett
>way overvalued boreball teams
>bloated network contracts and 10 times the advertising of Champions league or Premier League football for niggercrash and still the revenue is barely that much higher than real football
Kys
Nathan Brooks
>muh mcdonalds advertising buxxx
fuck off cletus
Grayson Torres
how much do you pay your sports channels in america? to be able to see nfl, mlb, nba and nhl?
Benjamin Nelson
you have to go back
Ryan Walker
They're all on broadcast. So a grand total of zero
Juan Sanders
they all come with normal tv packages.
Tyler Sanchez
Make me you little faggot white cuckboi :^). Born and raised here but I will always be Mexican for life jajajajajaja
Caleb Campbell
how much do you pay your tv channels then each months?
Ethan Ramirez
$45
John Richardson
Horrible b8, Skyler. We all know you're shitposting
Connor Lopez
>$ LMAO come back with a real currency closer to pounds sterling
Christian Davis
So kinda like a license?
Owen Bailey
>basketball is canadian
lol
Logan Cruz
i don't know how licenses work in the UK, if you have to be approved for it then no it's not like that. if you can just buy it, then yes they're the same thing.
Xavier Price
What the fuck is a "Sterling"? Everyone uses dollars so please convert that dollarypoolary to AMERICAN pls
Lucas Brooks
>45$ jews are just milking your money s m h
Dominic Sullivan
whatever, i pay twice that amount every week just to keep myself alive.
Hudson Bennett
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Thomas Lewis
post more soccer memes
Elijah Perez
>the two most popular players in the world's most popular sport make the most money
Stunning. I wonder if this takes Lebron's $1 billion Nike deal into account, though.
Nolan Ramirez
you in couple of months when you realize you signed something which grants jews all your paycheck
Justin Turner
my english
Austin Flores
It's like being forced to pay for free to air channels. English cucks smhtbqh
Jaxon Martinez
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Jeremiah Morales
Go back to your corner
Jason Anderson
God save the queen
Isaiah Diaz
>£1 is worth more than $1 >USE AMERICAN pls Im not poor, so no.
Eli Price
Just because you pay more for your Koran doesnt make you wealthy, Ahmed
Blake Murphy
>american has to resort to fantasy to escape reality of his poor currency