American media "ESPN" announced the 2018 edition ranking of "World Fame 100": 100 world's most famous athletes.

The ranking is created based on 3 items of search number of search engine, number of followers of social media, sponsored income. Juventus Portugal representative FW Cristiano Ronaldo has ranked number one for the third consecutive year since the ranking started.

Ronaldo has the number of followers of 121.7 million and ranked first in the whole. Sponsors' income was fourth with 40 million dollars, while the number of searches was only ten, but it ranked first in the overall rankings.

Lebron James of basketball second place overall, Lionel Messi of Barcelona FW 3rd place. The top three people were the same as in the past two years. Paris · Saint-Germain FW Neymar (6th place last year) is emerging in 4th place.

Football players occupied three out of the top four players, but other sports players such as tennis, basketball, golf and so on continued in the 5th place. Other soccer players are ranked in Gareth · Vail in 19th place, Mest · Egil in 22nd place, Hamez · Rodriguez in 23rd place. Andres Iniesta rumored to be transferred to Vissel Kobe also entered 28th overall.

There are 33 soccer players who ranked among the top 100 people, keeping tennis (14 people) and basketball (13 people) down most. In the female athlete, Alex Morgan of the United States only ranked 88th. Soccer players who came within 100th are as follows.

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

2. LeBron James

3. Lionel Messi

4. Neymar

5. Roger Federer

6. Tiger Woods

7. Kevin Durant

8. Rafael Nadal

9. Stephen Curry

10. Phil Mickelson