Ronaldo and Kaka, the World's richest

23/04/2010 10:50:00

Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka are the two highest paid players who will attend the World Cup in South Africa. The two leading players from Real Madrid with David Beckham's list of the richest football players, according to the ranking produced annually by the U.S. magazine 'Forbes'. The Englishman will not attend the world for the injury to the Achilles tendon he suffered last March.Despite being in the latter part of his career, Beckham, 35, remains the richest footballer with annual revenues of $ 40 million (30 million euros) thanks to advertising contracts it has with companies such as Adidas Giorgio Armani and Motorola.

At the current player of Milan, by assignment of the Los Angeles Galaxy, is next in the list of Real Madrid midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo named Player of the Year 2008 by FIFA, who won 30 million dollars (22.5 million euros) in 2009.

Nike, Coca-Cola and Armani are among the firms to Ronaldo, 25, lends his image and that supplement the income received by the club merengue, who signed a six-year contract with a pay of 15 5 million dollars (11.6 million euros) for the first season at the club.

To that amount plus 25 percent more each year.

The former teammate at Real Madrid, Kaka, 28, is third in the list of the richest players with annual revenues of $ 25 million (18.7 million euros).

Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Messi, Lampard, Terry, Ibrahimovic, Gerrard and Rooney complete the top-10 "players with more income, a list that has been developed taking into account salaries, incentives and advertising revenue of the players .