Top 10 Highest Paid Athletes 2015
4. Lionel Messi
Considered by many as the greatest ever footballer of all time. Lionel Messi is undoubtedly one of the greatest ever footballers to ever grace the footballing world and will be remembered for alot of years to come as he has broken alot of records over the years.The Barcelona secret weapon today makes the list of the Top 10 Highest Paid Athletes 2015 with a yearly salary earning of $51.8 million and earns $22 million from Endorsements making it a total of $73.8 million yearly.
Lionel Messi is one of the Footballing greats and has four FIFA Ballon D’or awards to his name which he won consecutively from 2009 to 2012. Just a few years ago Lionel and his father where investigated for Tax invasion and was asked to pay $6.5 million.