Rossi, Paid Athletes Most Expensive in Italy

MILAN - Valentino Rossi's fame an unquestioned. In fact, the last star Ducati became the highest-paid athlete in Italy.

 

Sites ESPN, Friday (04/22/2011), making a release of the highest paid athletes from 182 countries, with various kinds of sports football, basketball and baseball.

 

Remarkably, Rossi is the only MotoGP rider who entered into the list of highest paid athletes. In fact, the former star's Honda and Yamaha to beat all the football stars who are in Italy. Rossi getting paid USD20, 800,000.

 

Naturally, when Rossi was getting paid is expensive. The reason is, The Doctor is one of the most successful rider ever in MotoGP. Rossi had grabbed seven MotoGP premier class world title.

 

However, a fee-acquired Italian star is still inferior to other athletes. They are boxer Manny Pacquiao ($ 32, 000,000), basbell athletes Alex Rodriguez ($ 32, 000,000), rally driver Kimi Raikkonen ($ 26, 333.333) and baseball athletes Johan Santana (USD21, 644.707).