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Lionel Messi is the highest paid athlete

Argentinian soccer player Lionel Messi is said to have earned around 130 million dollars in the last twelve months. This puts him first in the new “Forbes” list of the highest-earning athletes.

First place in the “Forbes” ranking of the highest paid athletes: Lionel Messi.

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Is Lionel Messi really doing himself a favor with this job? That’s the question media professionals around the world asked when it was recently announced that the Argentine football star would become Saudi Arabia’s official tourism ambassador. The fact that Messi ignored the warnings of numerous human rights organizations – and thus also accepted a possible damage to his image – is all the more astonishing in view of the latest list of the American business magazine “Forbes” among the highest-earning athletes.

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