Ronaldo Nazario sells Cruzeiro from Brazil and affirms that Real Valladolid “will be next”

Everything seems to indicate that the adventure of the legendary Ronaldo Nazario as owner of football clubs is coming to an end. And this Monday it was learned that the former forward sold 90% of the Cruzeiro shares to a Brazilian businessman and stated that the next on the list is Real Valladolid of Spain, a club of which he also owns.

“I’m going to be very quick (in the answer), Valladolid is next,” said the former Real Madrid player, among other clubs, when asked about the future of his participation in the Blanquivioleta team, during the press conference where The new owner of Cruzeiro, Pedro Lourenço, was also there.

Ronaldo Nazario himself was the one who surprised the world with the announcement of the sale of the Belo Horizonte team, which he had acquired two years and four months ago.

Although it is not known with certainty what the amount for which the purchase and sale was closed, the Brazilian press speculates that it was for a value of $120 million dollars, which means that ‘O Fenómeno’ won one $40 million more than the amount he paid in December 2021 to acquire 90% of the club’s shares.

The champion in the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan anticipated that, after the agreement reached with Lourenço, he is thinking about taking a “sabbatical” until “something appears out there,” in apparent allusion to a business that arises in his native country. .

“Probably in the future I will do something related to the football industry, I will just try to be more responsible from now on in the next projects,” he said.

Ronaldo decided to buy Cruzeiro when it was in the second division of the Brazilian Championship and “on the verge” of bankruptcy, with debts of “1.3 billion reais” ($250 million dollars).

He managed to promote it to the first division, although last year the light blue team almost lost the category again, which began to generate a negative climate towards his figure as the club’s top leader.

The criticism has continued this year after losing the final of the Mineiro Championship against the main rival, Atlético Mineiro, and the bad start in the group stage of the Copa Sudamericana.

Likewise, Ronaldo has also been questioned as president of Real Valladolid, which this season is fighting to return to the top flight of Spanish football.

With information from EFE.

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