Lionel Messi Net Worth
Lionel Messi net worth and salary: Lionel Messi is an Argentinian-born professional footballer who has a net worth of $600 million. Lionel Messi has earned his net worth as the striker and winger of the FC Barcelona and the Argentina National Team. He is often regarded as the best soccer player in the world. He is certainly the highest-paid soccer players in the world and the highest paid athlete in the world thanks to an earth-shattering 2017 contract that gave Messi an average base annual salary of $168 million. He earns roughly $40 million pear year from endorsements, which means he likely earns around $200 million per year.
Despite what you might have read in some lower quality sources, Lionel Messi is NOT A BILLIONAIRE. By the time his current contract with Barcelona is over, with endorsements he will have earned north of $1 billion. Some outlets misread that stat and declared him a "billionaire". His next contract after the 2020 season will easily be one of the largest sports contracts in history and will likely bring his career earnings up to $1.5 billion by the time it completes.
Lionel Messi Salary: Lionel Messi is the highest-paid soccer player in the world. Under his previous contract, his annual base salary was $44.68 million. In 2017 he signed a new contract with Barcelona that pays a base salary of $168 million. His contract numbers were a closely-guarded secret for several years but in January 2021, Spanish newspaper El Mundo published the leaked contract details.
Messi earns an additional $40 million every year from endorsements. He has a lifetime endorsement deal with Adidas. Between June 2018 and June 2019, he earned a staggering $130 million. Messi has been featured on the covers of the Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 video games. He and Fernando Torres are the faces of the Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 video game and helped out with the trailer and motion capturing.
Adidas Endorsement: Being as he is one of the most famous and recognizable athletes in the world, Messi has been sponsored by Adidas since 2006. He is their leading brand endorser. He was originally signed with Nike at age 14 but switched to Adidas. In 2008, Messi had a long-running signature collection of Adidas boots, and received his own sub-brand of boots called Adidas Messi.
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Early Life: Messi was born in Rosario, Argentina on June 24, 1987. His father, Jorge
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