How much money has Lionel Messi earned in his career

In 2021, Forbes magazine announced that Lionel Messi was the highest paid athlete in the world. Thanks to his contracts to compete on the field of play, the captain of the Argentina National Team reached $75 million in earnings not counting his advertising contracts.

With his performance at Paris Saint Germain alone, Leo Messi earns 105,000 dollars per day. The Argentinean star, at 35 years of age, manages to maintain his level and along with it, contracts worth millions of dollars every year.

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In addition, with advertising, Lionel Messi pocketed during 2021 a figure of 55,000,000 dollars by being the image of brands such as Pepsi, Budweiser and Adidas. He is only surpassed by Roger Federer and Lebron James, two sports figures who generate millions year after year in advertising.

Throughout his career, from his start at Barcelona to his present at PSG, Leo Messi has earned 1.15 billion dollars, both for his sports and advertising contracts. Only three sportsmen exceed that figure and they are: Lebron James, Cristiano Ronaldo and Tiger Woods.

How does Lionel Messi spends his money

Like every normal person, Messi has his guilty pleasures, much of the money he earns is spent on luxury cars and his elitist collection includes models such as the Pagani Zonda Tricolore, valued at $2 million dollars, a Ferrari F430 Spyder, a Dodge Charger SRT8 and a Maserati Gran Turismo.

It is rumored that Messi bought the most expensive car in history, the 1957 Ferrari 335 Sport Spider Scaglietti, for $37 million dollars in 2016.

Also, Leo has several properties to his name, in fact, the most expensive property he owns is located just outside Barcelona, and is worth $7 million, in Barcelona’s most exclusive area.

The Argentine superstar also has a mansion in his hometown of Rosario, Argentina, and an entire floor of a luxury condominium in Saint Isles Beach, Florida, for which he paid $7.3 million in 2021.

Messi's private jet

Leo Messi's private jet is a Gulfstream V, registration LV-IRQ, manufactured in 2004. It is a luxurious aircraft valued at about 15 million euros that the Barça footballer acquired in 2018 and that he usually uses for family trips both his own and those of his father or brothers or as is now the case with his friend Luis Suárez with his wife and children, close friends of the Messi family.

The plane has 16 executive seats that can be converted into eight beds and has all kinds of luxuries, two bathrooms, two kitchens ... On the outside, there are a number of inscriptions that refer to Messi. While the number 10 is stamped on the tip of the tail of the plane, the names of Antonella, his wife, and his sons Thiago, Ciro and Mateo are engraved on the stairs that the jet deploys for the ascent and descent of passengers.