Is Ronaldo or Messi the richest soccer player? What are Ronaldo’s and Messi’s net worth?

It’s not only about football when we refer to Ronaldo’s and Messi’s net worth.It’s also about their popularity. Even though Messi is the actual NO 1 in football, Rolando is still the most famous footballer in the world, 115 million fans linking him on Facebook and 44 million on Twitter.

Messi has instead “only” 86 million likes on facebook.

According to TotalSportek http://www.totalsportek.com/money/cristiano-ronaldo-net-worth/,

Cristiano Ronaldo’s net worth is $450 million

• the highest salary in the world from football: $21.5m a year after taxes (he plays for Real Madrid at the time being)
• he earns a lot from his image, more then the salary from football, being the image for Nike, Clear shampoo and other big brands
• he also has clothing and shoes lines

Lots of endorsement deals make Ronaldo look like this. Everyone wants a bit of him

According to the same site, totalsportek,

Messi’s net worth is only $350 million

poor little fella’

He makes $21.5 million from his contract with Barcelona (after tax). He also has a contract with Adidas and many others. Only Ronaldo has more endorsement deals than him.