{"id":193392,"date":"2025-10-08T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=193392"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:30:19","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-becomes-first-billionaire-footballer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/193392\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first billionaire footballer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Saudi club Al-Nassr and Portugal national team forward Cristiano Ronaldo has a net worth of $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-10-08\/cristiano-ronaldo-is-first-football-billionaire-after-saudi-al-nassr-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports that in June, the 40-year-old striker signed a new contract with Al-Nassr valued at over $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>From 2002 to 2023, Ronaldo earned more than $550 million in total. He also signed a 10-year deal with Nike, reportedly worth around $18 million per year, and has collaborated with brands like Armani and Castrol, increasing his wealth by over $175 million.<\/p>\n<p>The agency calculated that Ronaldo&rsquo;s move to Al-Nassr in 2023 brought him approximately $200 million annually, including tax-free salary, bonuses, and additional perks.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Saudi club Al-Nassr and Portugal national team forward Cristiano Ronaldo has a net worth of $1.4 billion. Bloomberg reports that in June, the 40-year-old striker signed a new contract with Al-Nassr valued at over $400 million. From 2002 to 2023, Ronaldo earned more than $550 million in total. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":193271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-sport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193393,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193392\/revisions\/193393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}