David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka are leading the list of the richest football players, according to the list drawn up annually by the U.S. magazine ‘Forbes’, published on Thursday.
Despite being in the latter part of his career, Beckham, 35, remains the richest footballer with annual revenues of $ 40 million (30 million euros) thanks to advertising contracts it has with companies such as Adidas Giorgio Armani and Motorola.
At the current Milan player, by assignment of the Los Angeles Galaxy, is next in the list of Real Madrid midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo, who won 30 million dollars (22.5 million euros) in 2009.
Nike, Coca-Cola and Armani are among the firms to Ronaldo, 25, lends his image and that supplement the income received by the club merengue, who signed a six-year contract with a pay of 15 5 million dollars (11.6 million euros) for the first season at the club.
To that amount plus 25 percent more each year.
Kaka, 28, is third in the list of the richest players with annual revenues of $ 25 million (18.7 million euros).
The rest of the list
Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Messi, Lampard, Terry, Ibrahimovic, Gerrard and Rooney complete the ‘top-10′ of the players with more income, a list that has been developed taking into account salaries, incentives and advertising revenue of the players .
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