Interesting statistics I noticed — the top richest athletes in the world are not at all what you might expect. I thought it would be mostly football players and basketball players, but in reality, half of them are businessmen who once played sports.

Michael Jordan has clearly reached a different level, 3.6 billion — this is not just earnings from his career, it mainly comes from investments and shares in teams. Ronaldo, Messi, LeBron are also on the list, but their fortunes are much more modest in comparison. It turns out the richest athlete in the world earned the most not from playing, but from making smart investments.

It also surprised me that many legends from the 80s and 90s are on the list — Federer, Woods, Beckham. They haven't been actively playing for a long time, but their capital only continues to grow. It seems that in sports, money is made not during the career, but after it.