Africa's richest football stars

  1. Posted on Friday 21 January 2011 - 10:40
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    Walter Wilson Nana, AfricaNews reporter in Buea, Cameroon
    A list made public by a Belgian football magazine reveals three top African soccer stars in the top ten of highest paid footballers. They are Ivorian born offensive midfielder; Yaya Toure, who trades his football skills at English Premier League side; Manchester City, the captain of the Indomitable Lions and Inter marks man Samuel Fils Eto'o and another EPL ace Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayor.
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    Sport Foot Magazine writes that in the hit parade of highest paid footballers, Yaya Toure is at the 4th position with a yearly take home package of 10.8 million Euros, Eto’o is at the 5th position with 10.5 million Euros per year while Adebayor closes the top ten list with 8.4 million Euros per year.

    From the Sport Foot Magazine list, Cristiano Ronaldo has a salary of 12 million Euros per year, excluding advertising contracts. He is the current highest paid footballer. The Portuguese man is followed by Manchester United’s England striker, Wayne Rooney, who earns 11.5 million Euros a year, while Argentinean, Lionel Messi got 11 million Euros from Barcelona.

    In the list of the top 10 you also have the following players with their respective take home packages; Bastian Schweinsteiger of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich with a yearly salary of 9.7 million euros, at the 6th position. There is Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the 7th position with nine million euros per year, at the 8th position is Real Madrid’s Kaka, who takes home nine million euros per year and is tied with Chelsea’s John Terry, 9th position with nine million per year.

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  1. Posted on Monday 24 January 2011 15:48
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    Cristianno Ronaldo is the richest afrian football stars he plays for manchestsr city he makes 9.7 milion a year.


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  2. Posted on Monday 24 January 2011 15:48
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    he is the world greates soccer an makes over 12 m a year for magazines and makes 9.7 m forthe sport


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  3. Posted on Monday 24 January 2011 15:48
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    Tomas Franco

    I t talks about that how many people wins money a year and it seens that cristiano ronaldo wins more money.
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