Cameroonian named Africa’s highest paid athlete

  1. Posted on Wednesday 21 November 2012 - 15:13
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    Solomon Tembang Mforgham, AfricaNews Reporter in Yaoundé, Cameroon
    Ndamukong Suh, who plays for Detroit Lions in the National Football League (NFL) in the United States of America, has been named Africa’s highest-paid athlete by Forbes magazine. This is contained in the magazine’s recently published ranking of world’s highest-paid athletes.
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    Forbes magazine names 25-year-old Suh as the 14th highest-paid athlete in the world with total earnings of $36 million including salaries/winnings of $35.5 million and $500,000 from endorsements.

    Ndamukong Suh is the son of Michael and Bernadette Suh. His father moved to the USA from Cameroon where he met and got married to his mother Bernadette, who equally found her way to America from Jamaica.

    Though an American-born, the native from the North West region of Cameroon has reportedly often been vocal of his roots as well as his elder sister and manager, Odette Lennon Ngum Suh, who played with the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon at the 2008 African Women’s Championships.

    Ndamukong Suh is not the only African on the list as Cote d’Ivoire’s Yaya Toure is the 73rd highest-earning athlete in the world with American basketball player, Tim Duncan with total earnings estimated at $19.1 million each.

    American boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr., tops the list of highest-paid athletes with $85 million, from only salary/winnings, ahead of Manny Pacquiao, from the Philippines, who is second with total earnings of $62 million.

    Others who complete the top ten on the list include American golfer, Tiger Woods, ($54.9 million), Basketballer, LeBron James, ($53 million), Tennisman Roger Federer, ($52.7 million), Basketballer Kobe Bryant, ($52.3 million), Golfer Phil Mickelson ($47.8 million), David Beckham ($46 million), Cristiano Ronaldo ($42.5 million) and American footballer, Peyton Manning ($42.4 million) in that order.

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