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With the recent released of Sunday Times 2011 Rich List and Forbes 2011 absolute best-paid football players,i decided to make this checklist of African richest footballers of 2011.
Inter's Cameroonian striker and African Footballer Of The Year award a record 4 times,Samuel Eto'o is recently Africa's best possible-paid footballer ranked tenth to be the only African Footballer at the Forbes record.
1.Samuel Eto'o Fils
Estimated web worth: $40 Million
Annual Salary: £7 Million
2010 Earnings: $15 Million (endorsements+salary)
Current Club:Inter Milan
The Cameroonian striker counts Puma and Ford as sponsors. He has received the African Player of the Year award a report four instances.Eto'o is the most embellished African player of all time, has much to be happy with – in the wake of his Champion League luck with Barcelona and Inter Milan, his efficiency has been consistently very good with the 2 most recent golf equipment he played for, Barcelona and Internazionale. Eto’o refuses to match himself to other football players, letting his huge collection of awards, together with African Player of the Year for 3 consecutive years with 4times document. He is these days Africa’s best possible-paid Soccer participant and African Player of the year 2010.
2.Didier Drogba
Net price: $30.7 Million (£19m) - consistent with Sunday Times Rich List
Net Worth Last Calculated: May 2011
Annual Salary: £5.5 Million
Current Club: Chelsea
The Ivory Coast striker, 33, is Chelsea's top scoring overseas player of all time, good fortune that has been rewarded with a £105,000 per week contract. Whether he can serve as at his highest alongside Fernando Torres (qv) is still observed. He has an endorsement take care of Pepsi, the proceeds from that have been diverted to build a kids's hospital in Abidjan, his home city. Drogba is alleged to have put £3m against the sanatorium from Pepsi and different endorsement deals, which include Nike and Orange France.
3.Michael Essien
Net price: $22.7 Million (£14m) - according to Sunday Times Rich List
Net Worth Last Calculated: May 2011
Current Club: Chelsea
Chelsea prolonged Essien's £80,000-a-week contract by two years final summer season, taking the 28-yr-previous thru to 2015. He moved from Lyons in 2005 for a then club record charge of £24.4m. Essien has played greater than 50 instances for his nation, Ghana.
4=Yaya Toure
Net value: $11.4 Million (£7m) - in line with 2011 Sunday Times Rich List
Net Worth Last Calculated: May 2011
Annual Salary: £8.8 Million
Current Club: Manchester City
Yaya Toure, 28, made headlines worldwide when he joined his brother Kolo (qv) at Manchester City last summer season. A contract worth north of £200,000 per week took his earnings beyond all-comers in the United Kingdom and trebled his former salary at Barcelona. In a unmarried year, he'll earn greater than £4m after tax, and the Champions League qualification secured final week was price another £800,000 to him. With a minimum of £5m banked from his first 12 months in England, we add £2m for his 3 years at Barcelona.
4=Kolo Toure
Net value: $11.4 Million (£7m) - in line with 2011 Sunday Times Rich List
Net Worth Last Calculated: May 2011
Annual Salary: £5.7 Million
Current Club: Manchester City
If Kolo Toure's prime point of 2011 used to be playing alongside his brother Yaya (qv) for the primary time since they had been in the same workforce within the Ivory Coast, the low point was a failed drugs test in March that noticed him suspended. The Manchester City defender faces a two-year ban however says he unwittingly took considered one of his wife's fat burners. Kolo, 30, isn't as well paid as his brother but £120,000 a week assists in keeping the wolf from the door. He has a boot take care of Adidas.
Source: Sunday Times Sportsmen Rich List 2011
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