{"id":208958,"date":"2025-10-08T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208958\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:28:07","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-becomes-first-billionaire-footballer-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208958\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first billionaire footballer &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Ronaldo joined Al-Nassr in the Saudi Pro League in 2022 he reportedly became the best-paid player in football history with an annual salary of \u00a3177m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His contract was due to end in June 2025 but he signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn0qj75pg7qo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new two-year deal<\/a> &#8211; reportedly worth more than $400m (\u00a3298m) &#8211; which will keep him at the club beyond his 42nd birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina and Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi, who played against Ronaldo for many years during their time in Spain, has earned more than $600m (\u00a3447m) in pre-tax salary during his career, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That includes $20m (\u00a315m) in guaranteed annual pay since 2023, which is about 10% of Ronaldo&#8217;s income during the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When he retires, 38-year-old Messi is set to get a stake in Inter Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Ronaldo joined Al-Nassr in the Saudi Pro League in 2022 he reportedly became the best-paid player in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-208958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}