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2020-09-16T02:00:01+00:00
Sports • Soccer
Lionel Messi is the fourth athlete to reach $1 billion in pretax career earnings
Lionel Messi
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After earning $126 million in 2020, the Argentinean player Lionel Messi became the fourth athlete to reach a career total of $1 billion in pretax earnings. Before Messi, only golf legend Tiger Woods, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Cristiano Ronaldo had reached the same milestone.

In 2020 Messi had $92 million paid to him as salary and $34 million from endorsements.