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With a contract of 200 million euros per year, Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest paid footballer in history.
The Portuguese has a lifetime contract with Nike, valued at one billion dollars.
Currently, CR7 is also the footballer with the most followers on Instagram and the one who charges the most for an advertising post.
After a long wait, Cristiano Ronaldo made his debut with Al-Nassr, his new club, in a match that saw him face (for the last time?) Lionel Messi, his “eternal rival” and where social networks have not stopped Talk about it.
Sports marketing once again experienced one of its most important moments thanks to the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the same pitch, something that had not happened since 2020, when Barcelona and Juventus played as part of the group stage of the Champions League.
Since then, it seemed that even 2022 could bring together the two biggest world soccer stars of the last decade and, without a doubt, the two most profitable brands in international football.
You just have to take a look at their lifetime contracts: Cristiano Ronaldo signed an exclusive contract with Nike, which is valued at one billion dollars; Lionel Messi, for his part, receives the amount of 23 million euros per year for his lifetime contract with Adidas.
However, We also talk about the two footballers who have the most followers on Instagram: The Argentine has more than 370 million followers and the Portuguese already has more than 500 million, being the one with the most followers on the Meta platform.
To this, we must add the fact that, according to Hopper HQthe now Al-Nassr striker and new star of the Saudi league is he influencers who charges the most for an advertising post on Instagram with a total of 1.6 million dollars.
Cristiano Ronaldo debuts with Al-Nassr, scores and wins in networks
Recent information revealed that a ticket for the match between the stars of Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal vs. Paris Saint Germain Football Club had a price of up to 2.5 million dollars, that is, close to 50 million pesos.
And it is that, for some specialists, this could have been the last occasion in which the rivalry “CR7-Messi” could be enjoyed on the pitch, a rivalry that left many goals and millions to his previous teams, Real Madrid and the Barcelona.
Adhering to a new stage in his career, Cristiano Ronaldo, despite the fact that Lionel Messi’s PSG ended up winning the game, made his debut scoring a couple of goals and, in addition, adding thousands of tweets in the digital conversation.
Looking at the trends in the social network owned by Elon Musk, the topic “Al-Nassr” adds more than 21 thousand tweets, CR7 adds close to 40 thousand tweets and the name of Cristiano Ronaldo delivers more than 300 thousand tweets, without a doubt, a victory for the Portuguese on the digital stage.
? ? The GOATs#RiyadhSeasonCup|#CR7?|#Messi? pic.twitter.com/9IJeN1bm4v
— FIFA World Cup Stats (@alimo_philip) January 19, 2023
Mbappe checking if Ronaldo is really human ????#CR7? pic.twitter.com/mkz0BghB3p
—Sarah (@_m__sara) January 19, 2023
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Appreciate them while you still can.#CR7? #Messi? pic.twitter.com/Z300mvGkMm— Fabian EE (@heisfab_) January 19, 2023
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