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The richest football club on the planet is , while the list of highest-earning footballers is led by veteran David Beckham, as announced by influential magazine "Forbes".
The leader of the English championship, valued at almost 1.3 billion euros, has held the first position for seven consecutive years.
In second place is Madrid's "Real" (worth 960 million euros), and third is London's "Arsenal" (813 million). In fourth place is Germany's Munich "Bayern" (716 million), surpassing the indebted "Barcelona" (666 million).
Next is "Milan" (572 million), whose match attendance dropped by 6 percent or 15 thousand people last season, Roman Abramovich's maintained London "Chelsea" (449 million), Turin's "Juventus" moving to a new 41,000-seat stadium soon (429), debt-free "Liverpool" thanks to new owners (377), and Milano "Inter" receiving almost 70 million euros injections to fill financial gaps over three years from Massimo Moratti (301).
Meanwhile, among footballers, the unbeatable Englishman David Beckham stands out, adding 27.3 million euros to his account each year thanks to the impressive salary paid by Los Angeles "Galaxy" and advertising campaigns.
He surpasses the most popular athlete on the social network "Facebook" (24 million fans) Cristiano Ronaldo (26 million euros), who wears the shirt of Madrid's "Real". In third place is the best footballer on the planet from the "Barcelona" team Lionel Messi (22 million euros).
Following them are FIFA 2011 game cover face Kaka from "Real" (17 million), "Flamengo" star Ronaldinho (16.4 million) and New York "Red Bulls" Frenchman Thierry Henry (14.3 million), who did not hesitate to spend 10 million euros on an apartment in New York.
In seventh place is "Man Utd" striker Wayne Rooney (13.7 million), tied in eighth place are Chelsea's Frank Lampard and Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic (both 11.6 million), in tenth place is Milan's "Inter" forward Samuel Eto'o (10 million).
