For female players, the injection of money is much-needed. Outside of the highest-paid players at the Women’s World Cup, the player pool is severely underpaid. For reference, the championship prize money figure of $405,000 is almost 20 times the average salary, which currently stands at ...
TEHRAN, Mar. 16 (MNA) – Football players are a group of the highest-paid athletes around the world but although the Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg is at the top of the list of highest-paid female soccer players of 2019, she still earns 326 times less than the best paid male playe...
Over 20 years into his professional career, Ronaldo has become the first man to score in five World Cups. So perhaps it's no surprise he ranks near the top of the list of highest-paid football players in the world. Back in the summer of 2021, he became the highest-paid player in the...
Is It Profitable to Bet on Female Football in Nigeria? There is a reason why Nigeria is rife with enviable online casinos and betting establishments. The country is practically synonymous with football (soccer). The people are superbly passionate about sports like soccer, rugby, tennis, cricket, ...
the sport has dominatedForbes’ list of the highest paid female athletes. But the list has shown some signs of more diversity in terms of disciplines over the past years - compared to the 2020 and 2023 editions, which feature nine tennis players out of the ten highest-earning female athletes...
Who Is the Highest-Paid Soccer Player in the World? Lionel Messi’s income is reportedly $130 million with $55 million from sponsorships and endorsements. His total assets are estimated between $400 and $600 million. Who Are the Highest-Paid Female Athletes in the World?
Michael Jordanentered theNBAin 1984 when the highest-paid player in the league, Magic Johnson, earned $2.5 million in annual salary. That was a tick ahead of the best-paid MLB player—Mike Schmidt at $2 million—and more than double the NFL’s top earner, Warren Moon at $1.1 million,...
five of last year’s highest-paid athletes were football players, with three of the five playing in the Saudi Pro League. Interestingly, Kylian Mbappé is the only one of the bunch that is still playing at the highest level of the game, while the remaining four are approaching the end of...
The only female to make the top-10 highest paid athlete list so far is Monica Seles in 1992, when she was ranked 10th. On the first published list in 1990, boxers took up the first three positions of the highest paid athletes. In 2015, they were in the top two positions. 2019 was ...
10.Sugar Ray LeonardgolfUSA8.56 next on the list were: Larry Bird, Monica Seles, Joe Montana, Stefan Edberg, Greg Norman, Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, Boris Becker, Wayne Gretzky, and Gerhard Berger. References Forbes Magazine, Aug 19, 1991, Vol 148, No.4. The 40 highest-paid athletes li...