Former soccer player Ronaldo Nazario has tested positive for covid-19 and will not be able to be present at the party for the 101 years of Cruzeiro, of which he has been the majority shareholder since last month, the Brazilian club itself reported this Sunday.
The acquisition by Ronaldo of 90% of the shares of Cruzeiro was announced on December 18 and this January 2 it was planned that the “Phenomenon” will lead a series of events that will be held for the 101 years of the club, which since 2019 is in the Second Division.
However, his presence was thwarted after the positive in covid, which was confirmed this same Sunday, according to a statement from the club in which it is also reported that Ronaldo is with “mild symptoms”, but will remain “confined” and “at rest” .
The former player began his professional career precisely at Cruzeiro, where he played between 1992 and 1994, when he embarked on his European adventure, which led him to PSV Eindhoven, Barcelona, Inter, Real Madrid and culminated in Milan, from the that in 2008 he returned to Brazil to retire at Corinthians, in 2011. Cruzeiro faces a very serious financial crisis and Ronaldo will disburse 400 million reais (about 72.7 million dollars) for 90% of the entity’s shares, converted now in a commercial corporation.
Ronaldo, who is also the majority shareholder of Spanish Valladolid, has already made some controversial decisions to deal with this situation and begin to put the club’s finances in order, whose debts are estimated at over 300 million dollars. The first of these was the dismissal of coach Wanderlei Luxemburg, who had directed him in the Brazilian team and Real Madrid and had been in charge of Cruzeiro since the middle of last year, when he arrived with the mission of taking the club back to the First League. Division, but was not successful.
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