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Kaka, Frank Lampard Among MLS’ Highest-Paid Players for 2016-17 Season
- Updated: May 19, 2016
Orlando City’s Kaka ($7.167 million) and Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco ($7.115 million) are the MLS’ highest-paid players in the 2016-17 season, the MLS Players Union (via Steven Goff of the Washington Post) revealed Thursday.
Toronto FC’s Michael Bradley ($6.5 million), the Los Angeles Galaxy’s Steven Gerrard ($6.132 million) and New York City FC’s Frank Lampard ($6 million) round out the top five.
The majority of the remaining top earners in the MLS are either stars on the United States men’s national team (Jozy Altidore, Clint Dempsey, Tim Howard) or former stars in Europe (Andrea Pirlo, David Villa, Robbie Keane, Didier Drogba).
That trend is likely to continue, as stars from Europe continue to trickle into the MLS at the end of their careers to earn big contracts before retiring while the MLS budget continues to grow. The latest European star who is rumored to make the jump to MLS …
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