Recently, football superstar Ronaldo (Da Luo) bought Brazilian centennial club Cruzeiro for 78 million euros, which shocked Brazilian football.
As a former player of this club, Da Luo used his success on the pitch to finally have the club that made him famous, which is undoubtedly a landmark event in Brazilian football.
Da Luo is only 45 years old this year, and his transformation from a top footballer to a successful businessman has taken him only 10 years.
According to conservative estimates by Brazilian media, Great Luo's current net worth is about 350 million euros.
Over the weekend, the Brazilian Investment Bank announced that Da Luo's company, Tara Sports, will spend 400 million reais (about 78 million euros) in Cruzeiro in the next few years. In return, Da Luo will acquire a 90% stake in the club, becoming the largest shareholder of the centennial club in Brazil.
Before completing the acquisition, cruzeiro club suffered from serious debt problems due to mismanagement and was relegated from the Brazilian First Division for the first time in 2019.
In August, the Brazilian government passed a new law allowing clubs to set up joint-stock companies to operate, which allowed them to attract foreign investment.
After evaluation, Ronaldo's Spanish investment team decided to inject capital into his parent team, and the deal allowed Da Luo's business footprint to expand again.
In 2018, Da Luo acquired for the first time a 51% stake in Spain's Royal Valladolid through Tara Sports. He has since pushed that percentage up to 82 percent, becoming the club's largest shareholder.
Although the wealth of the superstar David Beckham cannot be compared, for the former absurd private life of The Great Luo, the current situation has surprised many fans.
It has been 10 years since Da Luo retired in 2011.
After fading out of the public eye, Da Luo completed a variety of commercial portfolios with the capital accumulated in the player era, and gradually became a business magnate.
In addition to investing in the sports industry, Da Luo also founded his own entertainment organization, and he owns a TV station named after Ronaldo.
As a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, Da Luo established a charitable foundation. As the founder and honorary president of the foundation, Da Luo invests in the positive development of Brazilian society through the foundation.
In recent years, every time Da Luo appears in front of the camera, his fat posture will cause discussion. It is reported that due to health problems, the life of Da Luo has changed greatly in recent years.
He began to quit drinking, and has a fixed female partner, the two have been in love since 2016, have been in a relationship for 5 years, is a more stable > in his colorful relationship
In addition, Da Luo gradually showed his attention to children, often taking the babies out on vacation and participating in business activities.
Although Da Luo's four babies were born to three mothers, they look very similar to Ronaldo. In this group photo last year, Da Luo deliberately wrote "self", bluntly saying that there are four "himself", which shows that he is proud of the babies.
Among them, the oldest Ronald is 21 years old and is the child of Ronaldo and his ex-wife, former Brazilian women's football player Milani.
It is reported that Luo's current girlfriend Lockes is only 7 years older than his son Ronald.
However, this love between young and old has been recognized by the children. In the family photo posted by Da Luo, Lockes participated in the group photo, it seems that everyone gets along well, and the children seem to accept the stepmother.