Valentino Rossi, Italy's Most Expensive Paid Athletes

Milan - The fame of a Valentino Rossi was unquestioned. In fact, brand-new star-paid athlete Ducati became the most expensive in Italy.

Sites ESPN, Friday (04/22/2011), making a release about the athlete with the most expensive fee than 182 countries, with various kinds of sports football, basketball and baseball.

Remarkably, Rossi is the only MotoGP rider goes into the list of most expensive paid athletes. In fact, the former star of Honda and Yamaha to beat all star football in Italy. Rossi gets paid USD20, 800,000.

Naturally, when Rossi got paid expensive. The reason is, The Doctor is one of the most successful driver ever in the MotoGP event. Rossi had grabbed seven MotoGP premier class world title.

Nevertheless, the fee earned the Italian star is still inferior to other athletes. They are boxer Manny Pacquiao ($ 32, 000,000), athletes basbell Alex Rodriguez ($ 32, 000,000), rally driver Kimi Raikkonen (USD26, 333.333) and baseball athletes Johan Santana (USD21, 644.707).