Ex-Brazilian striker Ronaldo announced on Saturday that he would buy Cruzeiro, a club where he made his professional debut at the age of 16, but which has languished in the second division for two seasons.
“I am very happy to have completed this transaction. I owe a lot to the Cruzeiro and I want to bring him back to his place ”, declared the double Golden Ball (1997 and 2002) in a video posted to social media by Cruzeiro president Sérgio Santos Rodrigues.
“We have nothing to celebrate at the moment, but we have a lot of ambition”, he added, holding a blue jersey of the Belo Horizonte (south-east) team flocked with the number 9 with his nickname Phenomenon.
According to the site Globe Sports, Ronaldo, 45, will become the majority shareholder of the club for 400 million reais (around 60 million euros).
Already shareholder of Valladolid
In 2018, he had already bought the Valladolid club for 30 million euros, currently in the Spanish second division after his relegation last season.
Passed by the training center of Sao Cristovao, a small club in Rio de Janeiro, his hometown, Ronaldo joined Cruzeiro at the age of 16. And it was with the Blues of Belo Horizonte that he made his professional debut, in 1993. In total, he scored 56 goals in 58 matches for Cruzeiro, which earned him the title. called up for the 1994 World Cup, which he won without playing a single minute. After this coronation, it was sold by Cruzeiro to PSV Eindhoven (1994-1996).
We have blocked the display of this content to respect your cookie choices.
By clicking on “Consult”, you accept the deposit of cookies by social network services such as Twitter.
–
–
–
????
— Ronaldo Nazário (@Ronaldo) December 18, 2021
Ronaldo then shone at FC Barcelona (1996-1997), Inter Milan (1997-2002), Real Madrid (2002-2007) then AC Milan (2007-2008), before ending his career at the Corinthians in Sao Paulo (2009-2011). In 2002, the eternal Seleçao number 9 went into legend after returning from a long injury to give Brazil their fifth world championship title, scoring eight goals in seven matches in South Korea and Japan.
Cruzeiro has been one of the best Brazilian clubs of the last decade, with two doubles in the national league (2013 and 2014) and in the Brazilian Cup (2017 and 2018). But the team was relegated at the end of 2019, mainly because of financial problems and internal tensions within the management. She has even been threatened with going down to the third division this season, ultimately finishing at a pitiful 14e place of the Brazilian Serie B.
– .
:quality(80)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/832eff0c-6053-11ec-97e8-02d1dbdc35d1.jpg "Michael van Gerwen starts World Cup darts despite a somewhat stiff start with a simple victory | Darts")
