Top 10 Highest Paid Brazilian Football Players
Top 10 Highest Paid Brazilian Football Players
Who are the Top 10 Highest Paid Brazilian Football Players? Brazil is one of the leading countries in supplying young good footballers in Europe, over the years we have seen great players like Ronaldo who is regarded as one of the best strikers of all time, Roberto Carlos regarded as one of the greatest defenders ever, Romario, Cafu..etc.
Brazilians are well known for their skills and tricks they poses on the field and recently we have observed one of the most skillful players join FC Barcelona and that’s Neymar Jr who joined the Catalan club from Santos in 2013 for £57 million, but let’s not forget about Ronaldo de Lima and how skillful he was.
The Seleção are slowly phasing out old players like Ronaldinho, Ricardo Kaka, Julio Cesar, Fred.. etc and bringing some new blood in the likes of Neymar Jr, Oscar Dos Santos, Willian, Jo, Lucas Moura and many more, players who are willing to take Brazilian football to the next stage and gain more experience like the old boys who won so much as a country.
Brazil recently hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup and will be hosting the 2016 Olympic games in which will be held in the Rio de Janeiro.
Top Ten Highest Paid Brazilian Soccer Players
Previously we have compiled and published the Top 10 Highest Paid African Footballers 2015, Top 10 Highest Paid MLS Players 2015, Top 10 Highest Paid Footballers In The English Premier League if you haven’t seen these make sure you do just that after this count down. Now let’s find out the Top 10 Highest Paid Brazilian Football Players.
10. Ronaldinho – Querétaro F.C
Starting the list of Top 10 Highest Paid Brazilian Football Players is Brazilian legend Ronaldinho Gaucho, well known for his amazing dribbling skills and eye for goal. Ronaldinho was best known during his career at Barcelona and AC Milan, clubs he won so much with while playing for them during his best days of his career. In 2003 Barcelona signed Ronaldinho from Paris Saint Germain after outbidding Manchester United for his signature for a fee around €30 million.
Ronaldinho won his first League title during the 2004/05 season and was named FIFA Player of The Year for the first tie in 2005, he also won the award for the second year running winning the Ballon D’or for two consecutive years.
In 2008 Ronaldinho turned down a move to join English side Manchester City for £25.5 million and instead joined Italian giants AC Milan for €22.05 million. Ronaldinho struggled with fitness in Italy before he moved back to Brazil and is now playing for Mexican club Queretaro Football Club where he is earning $100,000 per week making him the 10th Brazilian on the Top 10 Highest Paid Brazilian Football Players. Despite his age the Brazilian is pretty earning some solid cash in Mexico.