{"id":67897,"date":"2025-10-09T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67897\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:49:08","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-named-footballs-first-billionaire-by-bloomberg-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67897\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo named football\u2019s first billionaire by Bloomberg Index"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cristiano Ronaldo is football’s first billionaire with a net worth of US$1.4 billion ($2.4b). Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cristiano Ronaldo has been named football\u2019s first billionaire, with a net worth of US$1.4 billion ($2.4b).<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Al-Nassr striker\u2019s fortune has been calculated by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which monitors global net worth rankings.<\/p>\n

\n Factoring in over two decades of career wages, brand deals, and investment portfolio, Bloomberg estimates
\n Ronaldo has pocketed more than US$550 million in wages alone between 2002 and 2023.\n <\/p>\n

Among his most lucrative deals is a long-standing partnership with Nike, reportedly worth US$18m annually. But it was his move to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al-Nassr in 2022 that truly redefined football\u2019s pay scale.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo\u2019s initial contract meant he became the highest-paid player in football history, with an annual salary of about US$211m ($366m). He\u2019s since extended his stay with a fresh two-year deal said to be worth more than US$400m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bang Showbiz 9 Oct, 2025 08:22 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54575,1558,8613,13475,902,3595,54571,1888,54573,13986,10136,111,139,69,54572,213,54574,102,19985],"class_list":["post-67897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-24b","tag-been","tag-billion","tag-billionaire","tag-bloomberg","tag-by","tag-cristiano","tag-first","tag-footballs","tag-index","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ronaldo","tag-sports","tag-us14","tag-with","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}