Who is currently the highest paid European athlete? With all the huge transfers in football recently, most sports fans would be quick to name Christiano Ronaldo (€12.000.000) or Zlatan Ibrahimovic (€ 9.000.000). Some would answer Kaka, but he's Brazilian, not European.
They would all be wrong. The highest paid European athlete is basketball player Dirk Nowitzki from Germany. His salary for the 2009-2010 season with the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA is € 13.747.024,- ($ 19.795.714,-). That translates to roughly €400.000 per week!