The most common exit of the players, once his career was over, was always to make the leap to the benches. Of Cruyff a Xabi Alonsogoing through Guardiola, Simeone, Zidane, Ancelotti And as many as you want to list, it was a natural leap. As in recent decades, it has also been that of athletes converted to media commentators, sports directors, representatives and even presidents (Urrutia, Geli, Rui Costaa long list in Bayern …).
For a few years, some players have taken another step, exploring the world of club ownership. There it is Ronaldo Nazariothat just selling a Valladolid that did not give the impulse that he and the fans expected. EITHER David Beckhammaximum shareholder of Inter Miami de Messi, Luis Suárez, Busquets …
The last great change has occurred in the times when this transformation occurs. Footballers no longer expect to hang their boots to immerse themselves in the world of club sale. Gerard Piqué It was perhaps the great pioneer, investing in the Andorra when the central still played in Barça, of a fashion to which they have now joined Messi and Suárez.
He announced it Luis Suárez Through your social networks this week. Next to Leo Messihe will launch the Deportivo LSMa club that takes its name from the initials of the two players. It is a club founded from scratch, unlike what other players have done, which will compete in the Divisional D, the fourth category of Uruguay, with the ambition to become the future into a Uruguayan football reference.
The foundation of the club gives continuity to Suárez complex that created the Uruguay Montevideo. Now, the one who was a golden couple of Barça, gathered in recent times at Inter Miami, are launched to the investment in a team they aspire to become a professional one day.
The eccentral of Barça has been, with its clear and dark, a pioneer in many things through its investments. In December 2018, when almost four years were still missing for their withdrawal from the playing land, Gerard Piqué It became through his company Kosmos owner of the FC Andorrathen an amateur team that played in the First Catalan regional.
That same season, the team amounts to Third and buys a place in Second B, an issue that has required judicial attention in the framework of the Super Cup. He ascended two years later and, after a couple of seasons in Second, he will fight in the coming weeks to return to that category in the 'playoffs' of promotion of the first RFEF.
Now a year ago, Kylian Mbappé He left France to sign for Real Madrid, but in a way his continuity was secured in his country's football, becoming the highest shareholder of the shareholder of the shareholder of the Stade Malherbe Caen. He did it by disbursing about 15 million euros, through his Investment Society Coalition Capital, for 80% of the club.
The 'Era Mbappé', however, has not started well in the Norman city. The Caen has ended as a clear league colista 2with only 22 points already 16 of salvation, descending to Championnat National, the third French division. Local fans have loaded against the management of the Madrid star, no matter how an idol of their selection. It has not been a great year for Mbappé.
The case of This Hospitalet It is slightly different, because it is not a purchase. What he did Jordi Albanext to Thiago Alcántara and entrepreneurs Óscar Pierre (Glovo) and Gonzalo Álvarez (Rocket-Up) is to promote a candidacy to access the presidency of one of the historic Catalan football, now in Third.
The objective, once her candidacy was the only one presented and, therefore, the chosen one, is to build a project that allows the 'hospi' to the first division, looking in the mirror of clubs such as Girona or Villarreal, as explained by the new president, Antoni Garciain an interview with El Periódico. Jordi Alba embarks on that project while hurrying his sports career in the Between MiamI, next to Messi, Luis Suarez and Busquets.
Luka Modric He hurries his last month and a half as a Real Madrid player, after the club's decision not to renew him. His intention is to find a new club that allows him to retire after the next year's World Cup. Meanwhile, Croatian has joined the tendency to invest in football clubs. In your case, the Swansea.
The Welsh team plays in the Championshipthe second English division. From now on, he will do it with Modric as a minority investor. “This is an exciting opportunity. Swansea has a solid identity, an incredible hobby and the ambition to compete at the highest level,” he said about the operation in a club with which he has no greater link than the economic one.
He has not said or word on this subject, unlike the rest of the protagonists mentioned here. However, Vinicius He has also immersed himself in investment in football clubs, where appropriate Alvercaa team that this year has managed to ascend to the first Portuguese division.
The Real Madrid Brazilian striker is part of a Spanish-Brazilian investment group that in February was made with the property of the Alverca, for an estimated amount of 10 million euros. It is not known, however, if Vinicius is involved in any aspect of the club different from his facet of capitalist partner. It does not seem.
A rather particular case. In 2016, a well -known English Youtuber founded a club he baptized as Hashtag United. He began his journey in the catacombs of English non -professional football in 2018, at which time César Azpilicueta It became co -owner. Since then it has been ascending and is already in the seventh division.
