The billionaire record that Cristiano Ronaldo achieved and humiliates Lionel Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo set a record for soccer and sports overall with the money he got through his successful career, sending the Argentinian under his shadow.
The career of Cristiano Ronaldo has been filled with goals, titles, celebrations, luxuries, and of course, money, lots of money. Being one of the best of the best ever, the fortune he made in the last 20 years is something very difficult to imagine. But the quantity of money set a record that seemed impossible even for the best sportsmen.
That is because the Juventus striker's income is over the billion dollars. Not even Lionel Messi has been capable of reaching that special number between wages, prizes, advertisements and sponsorship deals, most of all them involving millions and millions, but that is not all.
Because CR7 is the first soccer player and the third athlete ever to become a billionaire. He joins then a exclusive club of sportsmen with more than a billion in income: the boxer Floyd Mayweather and the golfer Tiger Woods are the others. That means that Ronaldo is the first of soccer, the first a team sport and the first non American.
In fact, Messi might achieve that mark at the end of the season, but unfortunately for him, he will not be the first. In this era where the amounts of money are higher than ever, and knowing about the rivalry and the competitiveness of them, Cristiano Ronaldo is the first and that matters to them.
