Real Madrid superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo dropped to third spot in Forbes latest update of it's Rich List overall but remained the highest paid footballer.
Read: Highest Paid Ronaldo Earns R102m More Than Messi
Ronaldo with $79,6 million (R 982 million) is the top earning footballer, but boxing duo Manny Pacquiao ($160 million, R1.98 billion) and Floyd Mayweather ($300 million, R3.7 billion) earned much more than the Portuguese.
Lionel Messi follows in fourth spot with earnings of $73.8 million (R 911 million), while the next footballer, Zlatan Ibrahimovic with $39.1 million (R 482 million), only comes in 14th spot.
There are 17 footballers among the top-100 highest-paid athletes, who between them earned a stunning $3.2 billion (R40 billion) in total over the last 12 months – an increase of 17 percent compared to the previous year,
Here the highest-paid footballers, as revealed by Forbes:
#3 Cristiano Ronaldo - $79.6m
#4 Lionel Messi - $73.8m
#14 Zlatan Ibrahimovic - $39.1m
#18 Gareth Bale - $35m
#23 Neymar - $31m
#27 James Rodriguez - $29m
#34 Wayne Rooney - $26.9m
#38 Radamel Falcao - $25.9m
#45 Sergio Aguero - $24.9m
#73 Luis Suarez - $21m
#79 Cesc Fabregas - $20.3m
#83 Yaya Toure - $20m
#87 Frank Lampard - $19.7m
#90 Eden Hazard - $19.6m
#93 Mesut Ozil - $19.3m
Forbes updated their list which includes "all salaries, prize money and bonuses paid out between June 1, 2014 and June 1, 2015".
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