Friday, July 25, 2008

The Best Paid Athletes World

The boys of the world's best paid sport are mostly young and mostly very wealthy. They are called as the billionaires of the sport, how they are called to this select group.

Most of these revenues are produced by advertising and image rights. Proof of this is that some of them have been retired years and still remain in the list of the best paid. Names of Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan are evidence of this. The first of them removed for more than 25 years and in 2006 reported earnings per picture worth 55 million dollars.

According to the prestigious Forbes magazine says that each year brings to light the list of the best paid sportsmen in the world this year, look for the third consecutive year, leading the first place, the great tennis player Tiger Woods. That meager 31 years is the highest paid player in the world, entering between 2005 and 2006 more than 74 million Euros.

Continue in this list

* Michael Schumacher - 60 million Euros. / Formula one
* Phil Mickelson - 35.5 million. Golf.
* Valentino Rossi - 29.5 million. / Pilot bike.
* Kobe Bryant - 23.5 million. / Player NBA
* Ronaldinho Gaucho - 23 million. - Soccer.
* Shaquile O Neal - 22.6 million euros / Basketball.
* Carson Palmer - 21 million euros / football.
* David Beckham - 20 million euros / football.

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