Juventus striker and Portuguese legend Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the highest paid footballers in football according to Forbes 2020 richest athlectics.

Cristiano rank's second position in the list behind tennis legend roger federer.
According to Forbes the title was held by his rival and Barcelona god Lionel Messi who drops to third position recently.

Ronaldo sees himself earning £85m while Messi earns £84m annually.

Brazilian wonderkid Neymar Jr rank's fourth place with the annual sum of £77m,also basketball superstar LeBron James becomes the mist earned basketball player in 2020.This was the list before the covid-19 pandemic.

Recall that different football club's had to reach agreement with there players over salary cut.Maybe I guess that why Lionel Messi lost his position at first place.This is Forbes 2020 current list on two women made it to the top 100 highest paid athletes.

Naomi Osaka(€30.7m) and serana Williams(€29.5m)

There were only 14 footballer's making it to the list.

Basketball has the number of players in the list.

Tennis player were 6 and Golf 4.