Ronaldo Matches Madrid Pay as Brazil Soccer Players Return Home

Brazil’s economic boom and strengthening currency are luring hundreds of globe-trotting soccer players home.

The 34-year-old soccer star Ronaldo is getting paid as much with Sao Paulo’s Corinthians as in 2006 with Real Madrid, the biggest soccer team by sales, his agent Fabiano Farah said. That was $8.2 million, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Teammate Roberto Carlos says he doesn’t need to seek out bigger checks abroad after 15 years in Italy, Spain and Turkey.