While other football players are playboys, date models, and appear in underwear ads, too, no one’s lifestyle gets under the skin of fans like Christiano Ronaldo’s, 28.
\nHe earned $42.5 million last year, making him the ninth highest-paid athlete on earth.
\nHe just signed a contract that’ll pay him $23 million per year until 2018 \u2014 making him the world’s highest-paid player.
\nHe makes almost that much ($22 million annually) in off-field endorsements.
\nHis new Nike contract will pay him a rumored $8 million per year.
\nHe also has deals with companies like Herbalife, Castrol, and Komani.<\/p>\n
If he ever leaves Madrid, the team that buys him will have to pay the club ONE BILLION DOLLARS in a buy-out.<\/p>\n
His off-field lifestyle lives up to his eye-popping paycheck.
\nHe’s dating Russian swimsuit model Irina Shayk.<\/p>\n
They fly all over the world together, often going to the United States, where he isn’t mobbed in the streets.
\nHis big hobby is cars. He owns a $300,000 Lamborghini Aventador.
\nIn 2009 he crashed his $320,000 Ferrari in Manchester.<\/p>\n
He also reportedly owns a Bentley, Porsche, and Mercedes, among other cars.
\nHe lives in a ~$7 million villa in La Finca\u2014 an exclusive community in Madrid built by architect Joaquin Torres.
\nHis other big interest is fashion.<\/p>\n
He has modeled for Armani, and has an underwear line coming out with designer Richard Chai.
\nHe has a deal with Jacob & Co. watches, and has been spotted wearing their $160,000 watches.
\nHis pretty boy image has made him one of the most hated players in the world.
\nBut he had the best quote ever about it, saying, “I think that because I am rich, handsome and a great player people are envious of me. I don’t have any other explanation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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