Top Paid sport stars

[Edinburgh Black Cat]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/030520...orts-star.html

Albania: Lorik Cana (Football) $2,500,000

Algeria: Nadir Belhadj (Football) $2,779,000

American Samoa: Domata Peko (American football) $2,950,000

Andorra: Ildefons Lima (Football) $531,822

Angola: Manucho (Football) $865,579

Argentina: Carlos Tevez (Football) $19,000,000

Armenia: Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Football) $360,000

Australia: Andrew Bogut (Basketball) $11,050,000

Austria: Thomas Vanek (Ice hockey) $6,400,000

Azerbaijan: Aleksandr Samedov (Football) $1,287,000

Bahrain: Abdullah Omar Ismail (Football) $202,086

Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (Cricket) $425,000

Belarus: Alexander Hleb (Football) $3,300,000

Belgium: Vincent Kompany (Football) $5,340,000

Benin: Stephane Sessegnon (Football) $2,800,000

Bermuda: Reggie Lambe (Football) $480,000

Bolivia: Marcelo Moreno (Football) $883,449

Bosnia: Edin Dzeko (Football) $8,470,000

Botswana: Mogogi Gabonamong (Football) $354,000

Brazil: Felipe Massa (Motorsports) $17,052,632

Brunei: Darussalam Craig Adams (Ice hockey) $550,000

Bulgaria: Dimitar Berbatov (Football) $6,700,000

Burkina Faso: Charles Kabore (Football) $1,118,000

Burundi: Saidi Ntibazonkiza (Football) $315,000

Cameroon: Samuel Eto'o (Football) $8,000,000

Canada: Jason Bay (Baseball) $18,125,000

Cape Verde: Cafu (Football) $287,000

Central African Republic: Eloge Enza Yanissi (Football) $206,000

Chad: Misdongarde Betoligar (Football) $21,500

Chile: Mark Gonzalez (Football) $9,324,958

China: Yao Ming (Basketball) $17,700,000

Colombia: Juan Pablo Montoya (Motorsports) $5,088,410

Comoros: Kassim Abdallah (Football) $120,000

Cook Islands: Stan Wright (Rugby Union) $204,000

Costa Rica: Bryan Ruiz (Football) $1,720,828

Ivory Coast: Yaya Toure (Football) $18,200,000

Croatia: Luka Modric (Football) $4,900,000

Cuba: Yuniesky Betancourt (Baseball) $4,300,000

Curaçao: Jair Jurrjens (Baseball) $3,250,000

Cyprus: Constandinos Charalambides (Football) $1,589,000

Czech Republic: Petr Cech (Football) $7,400,000

Dem. Rep. of the Congo: Herita Ilunga (Football) $2,730,000

Denmark: Daniel Agger (Football) $4,500,000

Djibouti: Ismail Ahmed Kadar Hassan (Football) $51,500

Dominican Republic: Alfonso Soriano (Baseball) $19,000,000

Ecuador: Antonio Valencia (Football) $6,361,983

Egypt (Tie): Mohammed Zidan (Football) $2,580,000 and Mohamed Abu Treika (Football) $2,580,000

El Salvador: Arturo Alvarez (Football) $201,922

England: Lewis Hamilton (Motorsports) $18,473,684

Equatorial Guinea: Rodolfo Bodipo (Football) $430,000

Eritrea: Zersenay Tadese (Track and field) $340,000

Estonia: Ragnar Klavan (Football) $2,006,000

Ethiopia: Tilahun Regassa (Track and field) $318,250

Faroe Islands: Christian Holst (Football) $1,630,000

Fiji: Vijay Singh (Golf) $1,334,262

Finland: Kimi Raikkonen (Motorsports) $26,333,333

France: Franck Ribery (Football) $14,100,000

French GuianaL: Florent Malouda (Football) $3,441,823

Gabon: Daniel Cousin (Football) $645,000

Gambia: Ousman Jallow (Football) $314,000

Georgia: Zaza Pachulia (Basketball) $4,251,250

Germany: Dirk Nowitzki (Basketball) $17,278,618

Ghana: Michael Essien (Football) $5,500,000

Greece: Theodoros Papaloukas (Basketball) $4,400,000

Greenland: Jesper Gronkjaer (Football) $923,440

Guadeloupe: Mickael Pietrus (Basketball) $5,300,000

Guatemala: Carlos Ruiz (Football) $306,670

Guinea: Ibrahima Yattara (Football) $717,000

Guinea-Bissau: Almami Moreira (Football) $573,000

Haiti: Samuel Dalembert (Basketball) $12,200,000

Honduras: David Suazo (Football) $5,716,476

Hungary: Zoltan Gera (Football) $2,970,000

Iceland: Eidur Gudjohnsen (Football) $2,538,000

India: Ms Dhoni (Cricket) $1,800,000

Indonesia: Bambang Pamungkas (Football) $160,000

Iran: Hamed Haddadi (Basketball) $1,600,000

Iraq: Nashat Akram (Football) $900,000

Ireland: John O'Shea (Football) $6,800,000

Israel: Yossi Benayoun (Football) $6,859,267

Italy: Valentino Rossi (Motorcycling) $20,800,000

Jamaica: Ricardo Gardner (Football) $2,613,074

Japan: Ichiro Suzuki (Baseball) $18,000,000

Jordan: Odai Al-Saify (Football) $145,000

Kazakhstan: Nik Antropov (Ice hockey) $3,750,000

Kenya: McDonald Mariga (Football) $1,300,000

Kuwait: Bader Al-Mutwa (Football) $400,000

Kyrgyzstan: Mirlan Murzaev (Football) $150,000

Latvia: Andris Biedrins (Basketball) $9,000,000

Lebanon: Youssef Mohamad (Football) $1,074,839

Lesotho: Lehlohonolo Seema (Football) $34,300

Liberia: Sekou Oliseh (Football) $573,000

Libya: Tariq El Taib (Football) $1,130,000

Liechtenstein: Martin Stocklasa (Football) $978,800

Lithuania: Linas Kleiza (Basketball) $4,995,000

Luxembourg: Andy Schleck road bicycle racing $2,700,000

Macedonia: Goran Pandev (Football) $4,250,000

Madagascar: Anicet Andrianantenaina (Football) $86,000

Malawi: Tamika Mkandawire (Football) $571,000

Malaysia: Lee Chong Wei (Badminton) $106,000

Mali: Frederic Kanoute (Football) $8,600,000

Malta: Michael Mifsud (Football) $1,142,000

Martinique: Ronny Turiaf (Basketball) $4,000,000

Mauritania: Pascal Gourville (Football) $353,000

Mauritius: Diallo Guidileye (Football) $313,000

Mexico: Jorge De La Rosa (Baseball) $10,000,000

Moldova: Alexandru Epureanu (Football) $1,433,000

Mongolia: Hakuho (Sumo)$400,000

Montenegro: Mirko Vucinic (Football) $6,020,000

Morocco: Marouane Chamakh (Football) $4,247,000

Mozambique: Mate Simao Junior (Football) $516,000

Northern Ireland: Graeme McDowell (Golf) $5,176,586

Namibia: Collin Benjamin (Football) $1,000,000

Nepal: Santosh Sahukhala (Football) $8,430

Netherlands: Nigel De Jong (Football) $10,500,000

New Caledonia: Frederic Piquionne (Football) $2,972,339

New Zealand: Russell Coutts (Yachting) $10,000,000

Nicaragua: Vicente Padilla (Baseball) $2,000,000

Niger: Alhassane Issoufou (Football) $200,000

Nigeria: John Mikel Obi (Football) $5,800,000

Niue: Michael Junior Jackson (Track and field) $5,000

North Korea (Tie): An Yong-Hak (Football) $619,107 Jong Tae-Se (Football) $619,107

Norway: John Carew (Football) $4,500,000

Oman: Ali Al Habsi (Football) $3,000,000

Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (Cricket) $136,000

Palestine: Fadi Lafi (Football) $65,000

Panama: Carlos Lee (Baseball) $19,000,000

Papua New Guinea: Nev Costigan rugby league $216,667

Paraguay: Roque Santa Cruz (Football) $7,668,947

Peru: Claudio Pizarro (Football) $5,448,894

Philippines: Manny Pacquiao (Boxing) $32,000,000

Poland: Robert Kubica (Motorsports) $10,657,895

Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo (Football) $19,500,000

Puerto Rico: Carlos Beltran (Baseball) $19,325,436

Qatar: Sebastian Soria Quintana (Football) $391,000

Republic of the Congo: Christopher Samba (Football) $3,000,000

Romania: Cristian Chivu (Football) $5,013,000

Russia: Andrei Kirilenko (Basketball) $17,822,187

Rwanda: Olivier Karekezi (Football) $52,000

Samoa: David Tua (Boxing) $500,000

San Marino: Aldo Simoncini (Football) $172,000

Saudi Arabia: Mohammed Noor (Football) $1,200,000

Scotland: Darren Fletcher (Football) $5,000,000

Senegal: DeSagana Diop (Basketball) $6,478,600

Serbia: Peja Stojakovic (Basketball) $15,602,138

Seychelles: Michael Mancienne (Football) $2,100,000

Sierra Leone: Madieu Williams (American football) $2,974,000

Singapore: Mardan Mamat (Golf) $500,609

Slovakia: Marian Hossa (Ice hockey) $7,900,000

Slovenia: Anze Kopitar (Ice hockey) $6,000,000

Somalia: Abdisalam Ibrahim (Football) $340,000

South Africa: Ernie Els (Golf) $5,347,012

South Korea: Ji-Sung Park (Football) $4,700,000

Spain: Fernando Alonso (Motorsports) $22,736,842

Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardene (Cricket) $1,500,000

Sudan: Luol Deng (Basketball) $11,355,850

Suriname: Clarence Seedorf (Football) $4,000,000

Swaziland: Tony Tsabedze (Football) $212,000

Sweden: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Football) $12,700,000

Switzerland: Roger Federer (Tennis) $7,698,289

Syria: Sanharib Malki (Football) $400,000

Tahiti: Fabrice Santoro (Tennis) $19,500

Taiwan: Hong-Chih Kuo (Baseball) $2,725,000

Tajikistan: Farkhod Vasiev (Football) $145,000

Tanzania: Hasheem Thabeet (Basketball) $4,793,280

Thailand: Thongchai Jaidee (Golf) $1,400,000

Togo: Emmanuel Adebayor (Football) $11,900,000

Tonga: Chris Kemoeatu (American football) $2,369,000

Trinidad And Tobago: Anthony Herrera (American football) $1,425,000

Tunisia: Karim Haggui (Football) $820,000

Turkey: Hedo Turkoglu (Basketball) $9,800,000

UAE: Ismail Matar (Football) $360,000

Uganda: Mathias Kiwanuka (American football) $1,776,000

Ukraine: Vitali Klitschko (Boxing) $6-8M

Uruguay: Diego Forlan (Football) $7,169,746

U.S. Virgin Islands: Tim Duncan (Basketball) $18,700,000

USA: Alex Rodriguez (Baseball) $32,000,000

Uzbekistan: Maksim Shatskikh (Football) $120,000

Venezuela: Johan Santana (Baseball) $21,644,707

Vietnam: Lee Nguyen (Football) $180,000

Wales: Ryan Giggs (Football) $6,300,000

Zambia: Chris Katongo (Football) $315,300

Zimbabwe Benjani Mwaruwari (Football) $3,405,584

Edit: Not sure how accurate it is like, don't know if I believe O'Shea gets paid a higher basic rate than Berbatov.

[SAFCMarc]

May include image rights, although surely Messi would be above Tevez? Who wants his image?!

[lurker2long]

Originally Posted by SAFCMarc

May include image rights, although surely Messi would be above Tevez? Who wants his image?!

Can't include image rights as Dhoni is a superstar in India and only gets 1.8m he'll be on way more imo.

[The Tashkent Terror]

Originally Posted by lurker2long

Can't include image rights as Dhoni is a superstar in India and only gets 1.8m he'll be on way more imo.

Read somewhere that before the WC he quoted companies $1m for an endorsement but was hoping to treble that now they are champions.

[The Archer]

Brunei: Darussalam Craig Adams (Ice hockey) $550,000

Brunei - the home of ice hockey...

[Church]

Ireland: John O'Shea (Football) $6,800,000

[Dan The Man]

Originally Posted by SAFCMarc

May include image rights, although surely Messi would be above Tevez? Who wants his image?!

Barca pay very average basic wage Messi will be on around 50k they pay massive bonus's like appearance fee's and per goal. Tevez will be massively over paid at Man City.

Originally Posted by lurker2long

Can't include image rights as Dhoni is a superstar in India and only gets 1.8m he'll be on way more imo.

its ridiculous how low cricketers wages are.

[The Tashkent Terror]

Originally Posted by Dan The Man

Barca pay very average basic wage Messi will be on around 50k they pay massive bonus's like appearance fee's and per goal. Tevez will be massively over paid at Man City.

Plus the comparatively low tax in Spain plays a part.

[Buzzer]

Nepal: Santosh Sahukhala (Football) $8,430

Sign him up Bruce!

[tynevalleyblackcat]

Cannot believe how much the Finnish guy gets for driving through some woods.