This should come as no huge suprise but David Beckham is #1 on the annual Football Rich List produced by FourFourTwo magazine.Beckham's contract with the LA Galaxy in 2007 earned him a whopping $250 million and that's not all. Beckham's London-based company, Footwork Production Ltd., paid the player and his staff $8.4 million which 49 per cent less than the previous year. The company’s revenue – which comes from endorsements from the likes of Pepsi, Adidas and Gillette, as well as from Beckham Brand Ltd., a company he owns with his wife, Victoria – fell to roughly $17 million which is down for a third straight year.
And according to a Beckham spokesman, these figures do not include the various other benefits he receive from the Galaxy, such as cuts from shirt and ticket sales or the $5.5m base salary he receives.
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