World Cup in Qatar 2022
World Cup in Qatar 2022
Two hundred million euros per season for the next two and a half years. One hundred will receive them directly fromAl-Nassr, the rest will come in your pocket by virtue of a series of advertising and sponsorship contracts. Behind the transfer (almost done, says the Spanish newspaper Marca) of Cristiano Ronaldo inside Saudi Arabia there would be more, a much more ambitious plan than the sporting objectives of the club that wants to consolidate its leadership at home.
And CR7 would become, in addition to champion to reinforce the team, the man of image in support of a broader strategy: that is, to guarantee that after the 2026 edition of the World Cup in North America, the 2030 edition returns to the Persian Gulf. One of the most precious jewels of the robust sponsorship campaign launched by the sovereign fund Pif is precisely the figure of the fifth Ballon d’Or, to which a rich offer had already been submitted last summer.
He did not accept, he remained at Manchester United after his agent – Jorge Mendes – had tested the terrain with other clubs, namely those that play in the Champions League, because his client’s will was always clear: to continue to step on the stage of the main European competition for clubs.
Soccer player, brand and testimonial. The welcome and treatment are worth a thousand and one nights: the Portuguese star will reach the age of 40 with a princely contract and salary, with 500 million euros guaranteeing him a golden “retirement” and an exit strategy from football played like a king.
A sort of – just to give one example – a David Beckham role in Qatar, paid handsomely to convey the image of the Arab state to the world. Something similar and even more profitable compared to the numbers on the plate. All for the sake of a project: Saudi Arabia could thus support more strongly its candidacy for the 2030 World Cup along with Egypt and Greece.
The ice was broken with the current edition of the World Cup in Qatar. That’s why playing another Winter Cup in an Arab country is not such an absurd hypothesis. There is (yet) no clear correlation, defined between Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to Al-Nassr and the goal of having another Trophy punctuated by the opulence of petrodollars. But the path has been set and due to the influence of black gold revenues in the world of football, it is not silly to say that all roads in a future tournament will lead to Riyadh.
Source: Fan Page IT
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