Why aren’t there any women among the richest sportsmen?

Women athletes? Not received. And not because of them. There is no woman in the top 10 of the most paid sportsmen in the world. Once again, women are unable to compete in the money territorysince so much and such the disparity of the contractual force that – inevitably – pushes them to the border of the field where the most relevant sponsors and engagements are played, where commercial and marketing initiatives make the difference. Sport is confirmed – unfortunately it is not a novelty – modeled on the male gender. A planet for the use and consumption of everyone, but where the elite consists of males alone.

Like every year in this period Forbes He drawn up the ranking of the 10 Paperon de Paperoni dello Sport. A footballer, a basketball player and a boxer go up on the podium. In the first place, and it could not be otherwise, it appears Cristiano Ronaldo. 275 million dollars are certified. The Portuguese striker, the unchallenged king of the Saudi League (even if his Al-Nassr trained by Stefano Pioli has missed the victory of the title), is the plastic demonstration of how the sport champions of these times are real holding.

Cristiano, who alone is a brand (939 million followers on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube), invests in technology, in social media, in the real estate: it has recently created a film study. His alter ego, the man together with whom he imposed the most winning of the dictatorship of modern football, and we are talking about Leo Messi, stands instead in fifth place (135 million for the flea who is happily winning in Miami in the Major League Soccer).

Second, in the top 10 of ForbesAnd Steph Curry (156 million, the money earned with the sponsors is double compared to the engagement stipulated with his club, Golden State Warriors). To report, in the redefinite hierarchies, that Curry pushed the colleague Lebron James In sixth place (133.8 million for the 40 -year -old who has just ended his 22nd NBA season). On the third there is Tyson Furywhich between an announced retreat – is now 36 years old – and a flashback, is still at the center of the ring.

Fourth (with 137 million) is Dak Prescott, the NFL star, the American football league. Prescott plays with the Dallas Cowboy, who guarantee him an annual salary of 60 million, who arrived after an agreement that at the time of the fateful yes was accompanied by a bonus of 80 million, and many excuses for the disorder. To close the top 10 here is the French champion ex Real Karim Benzema In force at the All-Ettihad (8th with 104 million), two champions of the Made in the USA baseball as Juan Soro (7th with 114 million) and Shohei Ohtani (9th with 102.5 million), the star of the NBA Kevin Durant (10th with 101.4 million).

On balance it is the NBA that has been the master. Among the first fifty richest athletes in the world, 16 play in the Basketball Golden Guard. Curiosity: there are no Italian athletes. However, there is Ferrari, with Lewis Hamilton (22nd with earnings equal to 80 million). Another curiosity: Tife Woods, dominant of some past editions, slipped to 45th place. Earn more with sponsorships (45 million) than when he plays golf (10.4).

And the women? In the first 50 places there are not. Serena Williams was the last to enter the group of Scrooge in 2023. For the record: there were no women’s athletes, not even last year. But it is not worth as partial consolation. Because it will be hard to see them in the ranking also in a year.