Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo has topped the rankings for the world's top 100 celebrity athletes, ahead of Argentine Lionel Messi and Brazilian Neymar, while Egyptian Mohamed Salah was the only Arab star in the rankings and outperformed many international stars.
ESPN's ratings for the most famous athletes were based on a number of aspects, including the popularity of the star on the platforms by monitoring the number of followers, and the number of times it was searched on the search engine "Google", beside Market value according to specialized economic sites.
Despite the overwhelming popularity of football at the global level, the number of stars who have been ranked in the classification was limited to 26 stars only, with a strong presence of basketball, which has 17 of its stars in the classification, led by American LeBron James ranked second.
Once again, Cristiano Ronaldo tops ESPN's World Fame 100. |
Strangely enough, cricket ranked third with 10 of the stars in the rankings, led by Indian player Verat Koehl in seventh place, while eight of the stars of the tennis, led by Roger Federer in sixth place, like American football.
Messi took third place, followed by Neymar fourth, then Paul Pogba in the 12th place, and his teammates came in the French team Killian Mbabi (14) and Grazman (16), Massoud Ozil (19), Thomas Muller (23), Andres Iniesta 27) and Khamis Rodríguez (29th).
In the 30th place came the Egyptian star and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah, followed by Swedish star Ibrahimovic, Gareth Bell (33), Luis Suarez (36), Sergio Ramos (38) and Wayne Rooney (40).
Brazil's Marcelo, 44, Colombian Falcao 48 and Sergio Aguero, 52, followed by Spain's David Dejaia and Paolo Dibala 55.
He was ranked 58th to 62th respectively by Karim Benzema, Eddin Hazard, Luca Modric, Coutinho, David Luiz, Gerard Pique (66), Alexis Sanchez (72) and Tony Cross (73).
Spain's Fabregas came in the 79th place, followed by Gonzalo Higuain and Isco, Mexican Hernandez 88 and Jerome Boateng 91 and Italian goalkeeper Buffon and Robert Levandowski respectively 95 and 96 respectively.