{"id":328719,"date":"2011-03-22T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/22\/lionel-messi-is-worlds-highest-paid-footballer-jose-mourinho-is-best-paid-manager\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:06:41","slug":"lionel-messi-is-worlds-highest-paid-footballer-jose-mourinho-is-best-paid-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/lionel-messi-is-worlds-highest-paid-footballer-jose-mourinho-is-best-paid-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi Is World&#8217;s Highest Paid Footballer, Jose Mourinho Is Best Paid Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is the highest paid footballer in the world while Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho earns more than any other manager in the game, according to a survey by France Football magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina international, who is widely recognised as the world&#8217;s best footballer and has won the Ballon d&#8217;Or for the past two years, earns \u20ac31 million per annum. This amount that he garnered in 2011 came from his salary and publicity deals and is \u20ac3.5m more than what Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo earns.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney, a former team-mate of Ronaldo at Old Trafford, is third in the list with an annual income of \u20ac20.7m. US-based footballers, David Beckham of LA Galaxy and Thierry Henry of New York Red Bulls, are fifth and 11th in the list with earnings of \u20ac19m and \u20ac13.6m respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1127-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is the highest paid footballer in the world while Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho earns more than any other manager in the game, according to a survey by France Football magazine. The Argentina international, who is widely recognised as the world&#8217;s best footballer and has won the Ballon d&#8217;Or for the past two years, earns \u20ac31 million per annum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lionel Messi Is World&#039;s Highest Paid Footballer, Jose Mourinho Is Best Paid Manager - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/lionel-messi-is-worlds-highest-paid-footballer-jose-mourinho-is-best-paid-manager\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Lionel Messi Is World&#039;s Highest Paid Footballer, Jose Mourinho Is Best Paid Manager - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is the highest paid footballer in the world while Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho earns more than any other manager in the game, according to a survey by France Football magazine. 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