France Football reckons that Beckham earns £3.5m more than the next highest paid footballer and that he is the sixth best-remunerated sportsman on the planet. Tiger Woods heads the list with annual earnings of £40m.
Beckham's annual earnings from football are boosted by his endorsements; his Real Madrid teammates Ronaldo (£13m) and Zidane (£9m) are next on the list.
Frank Lampard is the highest earning British-based player pulling in £6m.
The Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was named the world's best-paid coach, a £5m salary placing him at the head of an England-based top four that also included Sir Alex Ferguson, Sven-Goran Eriksson and Arsène Wenger. Liverpool's Rafael Benítez came ninth.'