4. Lionel Messi – Soccer
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Regarded by most experts as the greatest soccer player ever, Lionel Messi makes a salary that supports that assertion. Making a cool $51.8 million in 2015, Messi plays for Spain’s FC Barcelona and the Argentinian national team. Argentinian-born Messi’s first contract with FC Barcelona was written on a napkin and the rest was history.