Real Madrid took the Spanish classic, but FC Barcelona can boast of something that the merengue team does not have.
The Blaugrana team is the most valuable football club in the world, According to the magazine Forbes, displacing Real Madrid from the first position.
Barcelona has an estimated value of 4.76 billion dollars and its income in 2020, when the pandemic began, was $ 792 million, according to the specialized magazine.
Real Madrid is second, very close to Barcelona, at $ 4.75 billion, with revenue last year of $ 792 million.
The white team, by the way, has the highest paying sponsor for appearing on a soccer club jersey.
Emirates airlines pay $ 82.5 million as the main sponsor in the meringue uniform. The contract, which began in the 2017-18 season, is for five years, in which Emirates will pay $ 413 million until the end of the 2021-22 campaign.
Third place among the most valuable clubs in the world belongs to German Bayern Munich, with an estimated value of 4.215 million dollars; his 2020 income was $ 703 million.
Manchester United appears in fourth position, of the English Premier League and whose value, according to Forbes, is $ 4.2 billion (2020 revenue of $ 643 million).
The Top 5 is completed by another British giant: the Liverpool, worth 4,100 millionIt's dollars and revenue of $ 619 million last year.
ANDl Paris Saint Germain ($ 2.5 billion) appears in the ninth place in this ranking, behind three other members of the English Premier: Manchester City (4,000 million dollars), Chelsea (3,200 million dollars) and Arsenal (2,800 million dollars).
Juventus ($ 1.95 billion) is 11, two places above Atlético de Madrid ($ 1 billion), current leader of the Spanish LaLiga, just one point ahead of Real Madrid.
On Saturday, Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 2-1 and momentarily took the leadership of the League, in which It could have been the last classic for Argentine star Lionel Messi.
It is the first time in 16 years that the culé team appears in the first place on the list of Forbes of the most valuable football clubs on the planet. Eleven times that place belonged to Manchester United and the remaining five to Real Madrid.
The white team continues to be the king of world football in terms of commercial revenue, with 424 million dollars during 2019-20 of advertising and endorsements, a 55% increase from five years ago, Forbes reports.