{"id":784931,"date":"2024-02-28T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/?p=784931"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:12:02","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-4th-lionel-messi-here-are-the-10-athletes-who-earn-the-most-from-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/ranking\/cristiano-ronaldo-4th-lionel-messi-here-are-the-10-athletes-who-earn-the-most-from-sponsors","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo 4th, Lionel Messi\u2026: here are the 10 athletes who earn the most from sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>High-level sports always pay off.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some athletes have sponsors for whom they do advertisements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to partnerships, athletes earn a lot. This is the case for Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Stephen Curry, Lionel Messi, and LeBron James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only Neymar, with his golden contract at Al-Hilal Football Club, and Kevin Durant, who is almost balanced between the $41.7 million from his contract with the Phoenix Suns in the NBA and the $39 million from commercial partners, are on the other side of the scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/image-1106.png\" alt=\"Cristiano Ronaldo 4th, Lionel Messi\u2026: here are the 10 athletes who earn the most from sponsors\" class=\"wp-image-784932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/image-1106.png 720w, https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/image-1106-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sportico unveiled its top 100 highest-paid athletes for the year 2023. Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, the top French athlete, ranks fifteenth with \u20ac23.2 million from sponsorships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logically, considering he is on an upward trend, he should break into the top 10 in the next ranking, within a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s basketball player LeBron James, notably due to his lifetime contract with Nike, who dominates this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/image-1107.png\" alt=\"Cristiano Ronaldo 4th, Lionel Messi\u2026: here are the 10 athletes who earn the most from sponsors\" class=\"wp-image-784933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/image-1107.png 900w, https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/image-1107-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/image-1107-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are the 10 athletes who earn the most from sponsors<br><\/strong>LeBron James (Basketball) = \u20ac74.3m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lionel Messi (Football) = \u20ac60.3m<br>Tiger Woods (Golf) = \u20ac60.3m<br>Cristiano Ronaldo (Football) = \u20ac55.7m<br>Stephen Curry (Basketball) = \u20ac46.4m<br>Giannis Antetokounmpo (Basketball) = \u20ac41.8m<br>Kevin Durant (Basketball) = \u20ac39m<br>Rory McIlroy (Golf) = \u20ac37.1m<br>Shohei Ohtani (Baseball) = \u20ac37.1m<br>Neymar (Football) = \u20ac32.5m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-level sports always pay off. Some athletes have sponsors for whom they do advertisements. Thanks to partnerships, athletes earn a lot. This is the case for Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Stephen Curry, Lionel Messi, and LeBron James. Only Neymar, with his golden contract at Al-Hilal Football Club, and Kevin Durant, who is almost balanced between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":784934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29],"tags":[238,146],"class_list":["post-784931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ranking","category-featured","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-lionel-messi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/nouveau-format-pour-site-bi-2024-02-27T201105.453.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfmZoa-3icb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784935,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784931\/revisions\/784935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}