Battle off the courts: Cristiano Ronaldo earns more money for every social media post than Lionel Messi
Elite footballers have long made money both for what they do on and off the field. In this case, a simple post on social networks can mean millions of dollars.
Cristiano Ronaldo has become the King of social networks, cause he turns everything he touches to gold, including himself. Brands have it clear when it comes to betting on the Portuguese footballer to be the promotional image of their products. To such an extent that they have made you the person who earns the most money every time you publish a sponsored post on your account.
According to public knowledge, the footballer earns $ 1.6 million every time he sponsors a product on Instagram. In other words, Cristiano makes more than 40 million dollars a year thanks to his publications on the social network. An amount that exceeds what he earns playing for Juventus, his current club. In this way, we can say that today the Portuguese wins more as an influencer than as a footballer.
The former Real Madrid player and five-time Ballon d'Or has accumulated 330 million followers on Instagram and is the person with the most followers in the world. Their publications usually have an average of 9 million 'likes'. On the other side of the street is Lionel Messi, who has almost 80 million fewer followers, and consequently his earnings per post are also lower.
If we look at the top 10 names on this list of celebrities who earn their fortune with their publications on social networks, we see that there are only two athletes, and they are precisely those mentioned. The list is led by the Portuguese, with his 1.6 million per publication, while Lionel Messi, with 1.1 is in the seventh position of a ranking.
