Top 10 Highest Paid Football Players 2
2. Lionel Messi
Argentine national soccer player Lionel Andrés Messi is widely known as the Leo Messiand currently plays for Barcelona in the Spanish Liga BBVA. According to the recent years/ salary statistics, Messi earns a total of $65 million per year out of which $42 million comes as the salary from the club and he also earns $23 million from his endorsements each year. His current major sponsors are Adidas, Samsung, Pepsi, Turkish Airlines and Herbalife for which he appeared in numerous ad campaigns throughout the world. He won the FIFA Ballon d’Or for a record consecutive four times. One of his major sponsors, Adidas, launched his signature shoe last year before the recent FIFA World Cup. Last year he had orders to pay $6.5 million tax by the Spanish tax authority.
