Ronaldo Nazario’s footballer facet was successful and after retirement he became a businessman with various businesses linked to sports, where he owns Real Valladolid of Spain and now, he bought his second football team to expand his heritage .
‘O Fenômeno’ became the largest shareholder of Cruzeiro de Brasil, where he trained as a player and is in the Serie B of Brazilian football after several years in a football crisis that has left the team on the brink of disappearance.
As one of the largest and most historic teams in the Brazil soccer, Ronaldo bought the 52% of the club and paid 100 million reais an equivalent to $ 70, 2 million dollars, generating surprise in the Rio de Janeiro country for the news and, in a way, in Spain for being the main shareholder of Valladolid.
Brazilian media assured that the world champion striker in the United States 1994 and Korea & Japan 2002, was in the South American country at business meetings where the purchase of the Belo Horizonte team was confirmed. In recent days Ronaldo assured in an interview conducted for a podcast that he had been asked to buy a Brazilian soccer team.
“Many people in my chat ask me to buy the Cruzeiro, Vasco, Botafogo. They don’t know how much money they think I have. Soccer is profitable. The Cruzeiro is a money maker. If you do it minimally well, you wouldn’t need to be a genius, it would work. It is the idea of sustainable management ”Ronaldo pointed out to Flow Podcast.
The news of the purchase of the Cruzeiro has generated some concern within the Real Valladolid, due to the surprise movement of Ronaldo who never gave clues or showed an interest in it. However, it has been speculated that this is the beginning of an international group like the “City Group” or “Red Bull” who own several teams worldwide.
Ronaldo ‘Fenômeno’ signs an agreement as Cruzeiro and becomes a partner majoritário da SAF. By meio da Tara Sports, investment will be R $ 400 milhões.— Cruzeiro 🦊 (@Cruzeiro) December 18, 2021