Cristiano Ronaldo: "I knew that when I went to Arabia I was going to open the box and I was not wrong"
He wasn't going to talk about football but he couldn't help it. The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo has visited Spain to present his new business project, URSU 9, alkaline mineral water of which he is a partner, but he has quickly been questioned by sports journalists about the total march of the so-called “BBC” (Benzema, Bale and Cristiano) of Real Madrid, leaving his number 7 free. “I'm sure that Real Madrid will win many Champions. Hopefully”, he wished his former team.
“I knew that when I went to Arabia I was going to open the box and I was not wrong. I am sure that the League is going to be one of the most important in the world in three years and it is already being seen,” said the Portuguese.
Although they will be rivals, he believes that the arrival of the Frenchman will add “competition and that is good”. “Karim went there and I feel sure that many more will come. Let all the cracks come”, he encouraged, regarding the possibility of new signings from the Spanish League or the interest that Messi arouses in Arabia. “When there is competition, the market benefits.”
Hundreds of fans have crowded at the doors of the Pestana CR7 Gran Vía hotel, chanting his name and smartphones in hand to try to capture their idol, who has arrived more than half an hour late due to traffic jams.
The municipal police have even had to intervene to control the area, as mobile phones have begun to be stolen due to the crowding. Cristiano arrived accompanied by his wife, Georgina Rodríguez, who wanted to be present in the front row at this press conference. The Spanish company is also part of some of its companies, such as the hair business Insparya Hair Clinic. “Gio is always with me,” he has said of her.
THE FUTURE OF CR7
On the possibility of becoming the owner of a football club in the future, following in the footsteps of the Catalan Gerard Piqué with FC Andorra, Ronaldo replied: “I welcome this situation. We are going to see how football is evolving, the leagues, if it is in Europe or abroad, we will see, but it is not something that I rule out”.
The Portuguese has also said that this idea has been around for a long time: “I already thought about it a couple of years ago, that in the future I would love to have a club”. But that will not be for another “two, three years”, who knows, he explained about the end of his career as a footballer.
For now, it is consolidating its future in business with restaurants, hotels, gyms, the hair clinic and, now also, alkaline water in collaboration with Aguas Minerales de Ávila. “A family project with which he has felt an affinity”, he has sentenced.