Cristiano Ronaldo has become one of the best players ever to play the game, but he has plans for the future. A day will come when he won’t be a professional footballer, but he will be keeping busy!This is information that may seem very surprising. Cristiano Ronaldo, in fact, plans to invest in the Cofina group, a leader in the media sector in Portugal. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner has long conflicted with the media of this group. Head of the group, the popular daily Correio da Manha, has been criticised several times by Cristiano Ronaldo, who notably accused them of “constantly inventing information and controversies” embarrassing for him or the Portugal team.Cristiano Ronaldo s’apprête à devenir actionnaire d’un des plus gros groupes médias portugais, Cofina Media, qui détient notamment ses “potes” de CMTV… pic.twitter.com/oMwXwn40gY— 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝘀 (@nicolas_vilas) June 30, 2023 In 2014, the footballer won a lawsuit against the newspaper for invasion of privacy. He also repeatedly refused to answer questions from journalists from the Cofina group’s television, CMTV. Before Euro 2016, he even grabbed the microphone of a CMTV reporter to throw it into a small lake.##NAJAVA_MECA_7350107##But all that seems to be forgotten now. Cofina’s general manager Luis Santana told the national press agency that having Cristiano as an investor is a great source of pride for the company.”To count on Cristiano Ronaldo, the best footballer ever, an exceptional athlete who shares the values of demand, rigor, hard work and resilience, as an investor is naturally a great source of satisfaction for the team that is developing the Management Buy Out of Cofina Media, which will be presented to the shareholders in due course.”Decked out by Forbes Magazine as the richest sportsman of all time, the Al-Nassr striker could become Cofina’s largest shareholder, with a 30 per cent stake worth an estimated $75 million.Cristiano Ronaldo – Footballing Geniuspic.twitter.com/HXZCerEpK3— ℓυκιτα^😈 (@PrincipalOfBall) July 1, 2023 The Cofina group, which also controls the business daily Jornal de Negocios, the newsmagazine Sabado and the sports newspaper Record, generated a profit of $11.4 million last year, up 147% over the year before, with a turnover of just over $83 million. The 38-year-old striker had already invested in the Portuguese hotel group Pestana to operate hotels under the “CR7” brand.
