The richest football player in the world

Football in modern society has long ceasedperceived as just a game. The rabid interest of the multimillion audience of fans was quite expected to bring inflow into the sport of sponsors' money injections. And now budgets of the leading football clubs are comparable with the budgets of some small countries. Proportionally with financial injections into the most popular game in the world, the financial demands of players also grew. In pursuit of good athletes, clubs are ready to pay fabulous fees to football players and their agents. And it all began in a completely different way ...

The first money in football

Initially, football was positioned as absolutelyAn amateur sport that excludes any financial rewards for players. In the oldest football league in the world, English, there was a precedent when the Preston North End club was expelled from the Football Association of England after paying its players cash rewards. Football at that time was only partly professional. All the so-called "professionals" worked somewhere, and already in their spare time they played, receiving a monetary reward for it, which was often much less than the salary at the main place of work.

Salaries of football players in the Soviet Union

In our country football for a long time was officiallyamateur. Each player had an official profession, for which he received his salary. But for no one was a special secret that the profession of athletes were only on paper, they made a living by football. According to the testimony of the players of those years, their salaries were fixed, there was not such that the team star was several times more than the rest. Yes, and the average salary of football players of the higher league was around 180 rubles, which, of course, exceeded the average salary in the country, but the difference was not so critical as it is now. There were still various kinds of bonus payments for the victory in the Cup of the country or for a high place following the results of the regular championship.

Now everything is different. Who is the richest football player? This will be discussed later.

Salary increase in world football

In the 80's, European football was in the stagefinancial recovery. The first football swallow, struck all high wages, was Argentine footballer Diego Maradona. It was the richest player at that time. The Argentinean move to Barcelona became possible only after the bosses of the Catalan club signed a contract with him for 200 thousand dollars a year. At that time, this amount was considered prohibitive, now for such a salary players play in the lower divisions.

Who is the richest football player now? You will learn about this after reading the article.

Football salaries in our time

The constant growth of the popularity of football as a speciesSports did not leave potential advertisers aside. This game has become a kind of brand with which you can draw attention to any kind of products. The main financial flows at the moment are accumulated in two championships: Spain and England. And if the first on the financial card is represented only by two clubs: "Real" and "Barcelona", then the representation of the English Premier League is much broader. There are Arsenal and Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United. For businessmen, it became fashionable to have a football club, a kind of pocket toy that requires million investments.

The 10 richest football players in the world

Opens the ten richest football players in the worldSpanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas, who in 2014 signed a contract with London "Chelsea" for five years. Under this contract the Spaniard will receive annually $ 16 million, plus 5 million he will receive from advertising sponsors.

Our top richest footballers continueone representative of the London club, Eden Azar. The Belgian midfielder receives a salary equal to 18 million plus 4 million he annually receives from advertisers.

Dilutes the hegemony of English clubsrepresentative of "Barcelona", Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez. The total income of Uruguayan is $ 23 million, of which 18 are his salary from the club.

The seventh position in the list of the world's richest football players belongs to another representative of South America. Sergio Aguero, Manchester City striker, earns 24 million a year.

The list of the richest football players replenishes againthe same representative of the English Premier League, the idol of English fans - Wayne Rooney. The star of Manchester United earns 20 million and additionally receives 6 million from advertisers (he is in sixth place of our top).

The fifth place in our conditional hit parade getsGareth Beyle, representative of Madrid "Real". A Welsh footballer receives $ 24 million in the royal club and is very attractive to advertisers who pay Gareth 10 million dollars annually.

Turning to the fourth place, we are stillstay in Spain, this time referring to the representative of Barcelona. The Brazilian star of the Catalan club Neimar receives 36 million a year, another 14 are advertisers.

So, we go to the top three of the richestplayers on our planet. Opens its only representative of the French championship - Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swedish star has a total income equal to 37 million dollars, of which only 7 to him are his advertising contracts. The lion's share of the income he receives at the club.

And yet, who is the richest football player in the world? On the ninth position with a huge gap is the greatest player of our time - Lionel Messi. Argentine phenomenon receives 51 million in Barcelona and at the same time is one of the most popular football players among the advertising representatives of major brands. The amount of payments from various kinds of advertising contracts for Leo is about 26 million dollars.

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The richest football player in the world

The most recognizable football player in the world is the mostrich representative of his profession. Striker Madrid "Real" and the Portuguese team for the year earned 82 million dollars, five million surpassing his eternal opponent, Leonel Messi. Cristiano Ronaldo, in addition to his extraordinary football talent, has an exceptionally photogenic appearance, which allows him to be in demand in the world of show business. Only this income item brings Ronaldo $ 29 million annually.

Cash in football Russia

The main cash in Russian footballare concentrated in two cities - Moscow and St. Petersburg. A bright meteor swept through the financial football market of our country Makhachkala child of Kerimov, the club "Anji", his appearance, a vzbalamutivshy and not so small level of salaries in our football.

Who are the richest football players in Russia? Ten opens Artem Dzyuba, exchanged "Spartacus" for "Zenith" and now receives 3.6 million dollars a year. In addition to him, in the top ten of the richest players of the Russian Premier League are 4 more representatives of the St. Petersburg club. They are Axel Witsel, Javi Garcia, Esequiel Garay and the Hulk. Also in the top ten there are three representatives of Lokomotiv (Chorluka and Bussof and Fernandes who have already left the railwaymen), and two representatives of the Moscow Dynamo (Denisov and Kokorin). It should be borne in mind that the Russian advertising market does not bring our football stars an income comparable to world marks, so that our players have to live only on wages.

The richest player in Russia

Until recently, the most highly paidRussian football player was considered to be the forward of "Zenith" Brazilian football player Hulk. He received in FK around 7 million dollars, while significantly outstripping the nearest pursuers. But this summer the St. Petersburg club sold the Brazilian to China, and at the moment two players of Zenit - Argentine defender Garay and Russian striker Alexander Kokorin, who receive five million dollars a year - share the championship's palm.