{"id":483157,"date":"2024-05-16T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483157"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:07:10","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-named-highest-paid-athlete-in-the-world-by-forbes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-named-highest-paid-athlete-in-the-world-by-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo named &#8216;highest-paid athlete in the world&#8217; by Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has once again topped the Forbes list of highest-paid athletes for the fourth time in his career, with golfer Jon Rahm making a significant leap to second place.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, who also led the list last year following his high-profile move to Saudi Arabian football club Al Nassr, earned a staggering $260 million over the past 12 months, a significant increase from the $136 million he earned the previous year, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Portugal forward&#8217;s earnings outpace those of his long-time rival, Lionel Messi, who has dropped to third place on the list. Messi&#8217;s earnings totaled $135 million.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Rahm, the Spanish golfer, climbed to second place, boosted by his switch to the Saudi-funded LIV Golf tour, which reportedly earned him $218 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cristiano Ronaldo tops Forbes&#8217; highest-paid athlete list for the fourth time<\/p>\n<p>Five of the top ten are footballers \ud83d\udcb0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ob4mGYcNbs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ob4mGYcNbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1791099603397570650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Footballers Neymar and Karim Benzema have also secured spots in the top 10 after their moves to the Saudi Pro League. The list features other prominent athletes, including basketball stars <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a> in fourth place, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/a><\/a> in fifth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\">Stephen Curry<\/a><\/a><\/a> in ninth. American football quarterback Lamar Jackson rounds out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes reports that the world&#8217;s 10 highest-paid athletes collectively earned $1.38 billion before taxes and agents\u2019 fees over the past year, marking the highest total ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World&#8217;s Top 10 Highest Paid Athletes 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cristiano Ronaldo, football: $260m<\/li>\n<li>Jon Rahm, golf: $218m<\/li>\n<li>Lionel Messi, football: $135m<\/li>\n<li>LeBron James, basketball: $128.2m<\/li>\n<li>Giannis Antetokounmpo, basketball: $111m<\/li>\n<li>Kylian Mbappe, football: $110m<\/li>\n<li>Neymar, football: $108m<\/li>\n<li>Karim Benzema, football: $106m<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Curry, basketball: $102m<\/li>\n<li>Lamar Jackson, American football: $100.5m<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has once again topped the Forbes list of highest-paid athletes for the fourth time in his career, with golfer Jon Rahm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483158,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[17961],"acf":{"announce":"The whole top 10 earned $1.38 billion collectively","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483159,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483157\/revisions\/483159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483157"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483157"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}