David Beckham

Slightly old, but still charismatic Beckham is the highest paid player. Forbes says so. Since one of the most famous players in the world left the sport he didn’t grow poor for sure. He earns 35 thousand pounds a day and 12, 5 million a year thanks to advertising and companies he created.

Beckham is the life-long Ambassador of Adidas brand; the footballer produces a branded underwear line for the network of youth clothes "H & M" and has perfume fragrances for Coty. We can say that David Beckham became quite a successful brand himself during his career. A significant contribution to the replenishment of accounts was made by his company, which produces sports shoes - Footwork Production. All this made him richer more than 50 million during the last 5 years. And all Beckham’s state is estimated at least 165 million pounds. And this made him one of the richest sportsmen in planet.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Ronaldo is a hit with the ladies and the subject of admiration. So Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo is not averse to making money on the commercials . Both with well-known brands and not much. He has repeatedly starred for Nike, paired with Pele promoted the services of Emirates airline. He was the face of the brand Armani. But sometimes the footballer surprises with his originality. For example, once Ronaldo advertised a Japanese simulator for the mouth.

Journalists learned the income of Cristiano Ronaldo from advertising in Instagram. The striker of Juventus earns 415 thousand dollars for every commercial post, reports Goal.com. Thus, the Portuguese became the highest paid man using a social network. According to Forbes, Ronaldo's sponsorship contracts brings him $ 21 million.

Lionel Messi

The star of Barcelona football club and the Argentina national team Leo Messi gets the same amount $ 21 million. Even here they can’t choose who is the best. He advertises the services of Turkish Airlines. By the way, the video has already collected 124 million views:

Also Messi is playing football with meerkats in Pepsi commercial:

And enjoys eating Lays:

The amount of Messi’s advertising contracts is comparable to his salary.

Neimar

PSG player and Brazilian star Neymar has much more than one contract with famous brands at his 26. Even 5 years ago he earned $ 9.1 million, promoting companies such as Nike, Red Bull, Volkswagen and Panasonic. Only one contact with Nike is estimated at about $ 6 million.

Neimar signs a new contract almost every month. In 2013 he became the brand Police model producing sunglasses. Neymar’s popularity always on top and companies are trying to get ahead of each other, making the player their companion.

Zinedine Zidane

Zidane has a great income an it’svery easy to explain. He’s just a talented person. No matter what sphere we are talking about: playing football, managing or making commercials. Zidane’s income goes from Adidas, Danone, Audi and several other companies. Zidane has already earned about 9.1 million euro. And is not going to stop.

According to experts on advertising, the image of Zidane remains so strong. It provides him with participation in the largest advertising campaigns.