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With a contract of 200 million euros per year, Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest paid footballer in history.
With more than 40 million “Likes”, the photo of Messi as Qatar Champion is the publication of an athlete with the most “Likes” in Instagram history.
Messi has a lifetime contract with Adidas, through which he receives around 23 million euros a year.
For a large number of soccer fans, meeting Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi seems to be a distant dream, which could only be paid for with a million-dollar amount on the table.
In the history of football, the names of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, without a doubt, will appear in the same way that today, although now deceased, Pelé and Diego Armando Maradona are remembered not only in terms of football, but also in the presence they had in various industries.
And it is that, forever, football has established itself as one of the most important windows in terms of brand positioning and, as is known, today, a footballer is also a brand, which, thanks to social networks, social, achieves its own positioning.
To mention an example, to this day, the Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is the one that generates the most income for a post on Instagram, charging the amount of $1.6 million for uploading an image to your profile with a product of a certain brand.
However, According to information from Instagram and SocialTracker, the current forward of the Portugal National Team during the Soccer World Cup in Qatar is the user with the most followers.s, adding the amount of 500 million followers.
Lionel Messi, for his part, has the image with the most likes on Instagram, the same thing he got when he ended up being World Cup champion in Qatar. To this day, the photo of him lifting the World Cup already has more than 43 million “Likes”, becoming the publication with the most “Likes” by an athlete in the history of the social network owned by Meta.
Businessman launches millionaire offer to meet Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi
Without a doubt, the Cristiano Ronaldo-Messi sports rivalry is one of the most attractive in terms of marketing and, of course, football.
Currently, both footballers are in what for many is the last stage of their careers; However, this does not avoid the fact that we are talking about two of the most followed athletes in history, so much so that there are those who do everything possible to meet them.
This is the case of an Arab businessman, called Mushref Al Ghamdiwho is offering 2.6 million dollars to meet the footballers, this, within the framework of an auction with which the winner will take a ticket for Cristiano Ronaldo’s debut match, in which he will face PSG of Lionel Messi.
And, as was recently revealed, the tickets for said match are being sold in that quantity and, to tell the truth, they are already sold out.
The auction will close on January 17 and it is expected that there will be much higher bids to purchase a ticket and see the debut of CR7 in Saudi Arabia.
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