Recently, the European Championship began, and the national football team also advanced to the round of 12 in the World Preliminary Round, and the fans reveled again. It can be predicted that in the next few months, the circle of friends will be football content again.
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But when you don't understand what cross-transposition, area defense, when others are talking about the World Cup, what can you talk about if you like wine?
Many football stars are not only related to wine, but also buy wineries and produce their own drinks! If you want to be a great player, you must first strive to be a "diagonal youth" with multi-track development. For example, the main business is playing football, and the side business is the owner of the winery?
For long-established stars like Messi and David Beckham, it's good to have a second career off the pitch. Whether it is opening a hotel, or investing in restaurants, wineries, etc., it is a beautiful thing that teammates like to hear, benefit fans and at the same time enhance the compulsion, and can also enjoy it themselves.
Jean Tigana, a member of the UEFA Euro 1984 champions team, was the first football star to see wine lucrative, and his wine career was much better than his condition in the Premier League. He later sold his Bordeaux vineyards for a larger vineyard in Marseille.
Therefore, there are some later football stars who follow the trend, and some also buy into the winery. Let's take a look at what their wineries are like?
Messi has a wide range of contacts, including hotels and restaurants
And the wineries
Lionel Messi is considered one of the best footballers on the planet. At the age of 24, he has won the "FIFA Ballon d'Or Award" for three consecutive years as the "World Player of the Year".
Messi once spent a lot of money to buy a four-star hotel and build a theme park with his own name. In addition to these, Messi deserves to mention his "LEO" wine.
"LEO" was made with the help of Theabian traditional Argentine winery Casa Bianchi, and the Foundation under Messi's name, in collaboration with the Argentine Bodega Valentin Bianchi (Winery Bianchi), launched a wine named after Messi's nickname "LEO", and the label design is full of sports elements such as football and jersey.
According to the agreement between the two parties, for every bottle of "LEO" wine sold, the winery will donate a certain amount of funds to the foundation for the foundation's charity.
La Mancha Countryside, Spain,
Vineyard homestays in Iniesta
Spain's professional Andres Iniesta, a midfielder and winger, is one of the Grand Slam winners of the football team.
He got involved in the winemaking industry because he had a grandfather who worked as a wine farmer. His grandparents ran a vineyard, but suffered from the lack of winemaking strength, and for many years had to sell the harvest to local wineries.
It wasn't until Iniesta became a soccer star that in 2010 the family finally owned their own winery, Bodega Iniesta, and the vineyard area expanded rapidly from the initial 10 hectares to 200 hectares, from the cultivation of grapes to the sale of wine.
Currently managed by Iniesta's father, the Iniesta family winery owns two wine brands, Corazón Loco and Finca El Carril, with a range ranging from affordable table wines to exquisite, sophisticated vintages.
Based on Iniesta's experience growing up, the winery has become a "strange house" for tourists to stay.
Visitors to the winery can not only pick table grapes, but also ride the vineyard with friends, explore Iniesta's winemaking space and large underground cellars, and take part in wine tastings at the winery.
The winery owners are well-known enough, and Bodega Iniesta has established sales outlets in 25 countries around the world, including strong online channels such as Tmall Mall.
Beckham's affection,
Give the vineyard as a gift to your wife
Everyone says Beckham is the most famous guy among the footballers who bought the vineyard. Because in 2008 he bought a vineyard in Napa as a gift to his wife Victoria and named it "Posh", which means luxurious, upscale, first-class. At that time, he also gave his wife a bottle of wine with her name on it.
His winery is run by a team of professionals and is not sold to the outside world, only for friends and family. Inside the winery is an ornate winery building worth millions of dollars.
The Beckhams reportedly also own three wineries in France, including one in Bordeaux, which has not been publicly reported and does not want to be used as a commodity. I'll really enjoy it!
Italy's Pirlo
Start a retired brewing life
Andrea Pirlo is one of the few technical organization backs in football, with delicate feet, the last master of classical football, the representative of elegant football. On May 28 this year, Pirlo officially stepped down as the team's manager.
Pirlo's winery Pratum Coller is located in the Floro district of Brescia, Italy, in a valley that extends southward from the Alps, irrigated by the waters of Lake Garda and Lake Iseo on the east and west sides, and the geographical environment is very advantageous, rich in olives, grapes and cheese.
Pratum means "meadow" in Latin, and Coller is the place name of the location of the winery. It's like it means that Pirlo is multi-tasking, playing football and making wine.
For the soon-to-retire Italian goalkeeper Buffon
Tailor-made wine
Gianluigi Buffon is the captain of the Italian national team and the anchor of Juventus and Italy.
In May this year, it was announced that he would leave Juventus at the end of the season, and he might also retire directly and find another place to continue his career.
Back in 2017, Buffon signed a contract with the Cantine Fabio Cordella winery in Apulia, Italy, to co-produce wines and release three wines named after Buffon.
The three wines are Primitivo Salento Igp, Salento Igp Rosé with Negramaro and Salento IGP Chardonnay White".
After several years of preparation, I wonder if Buffon will also buy a winery to enjoy after retiring?
Messi in Argentina, Pirlo in Italy, Iniesta in Spain, etc. They love crossover, and when they don't play football, they are also seriously running their own small winery.
Wine and sports have a long history. Celebrities have more opportunities to contact wine on various occasions, and naturally they have gradually developed various ideas related to it, and buying a winery to make their own wine or customizing their own brand has become the most common thing.
In the eyes of most people, the focus of star wineries has never been on the wine itself, anyway, their own aura has been dazzling enough, the people who buy wine are mostly fans, and the quality of the wine is no longer in the scope of discussion.
I don't know if any of my friends have drunk the wine of these football stars? How does it taste? Please leave a message to share~
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