Like many athletes who want to prepare for the future while remaining in their preferred sector of activity, Lionel Messi has already invested in football, having owned for several months a Catalan football club in the fifth division: UE Cornella.
An experience that did not satisfy him, on the contrary. The former captain of the Argentine selection having decided to take the step of a new acquisition. Total. By already obtaining an agreement in principle with the Colombian investment fund TH, led by businessman Juan Carlos Trujillo, to buy all of the shares in Eldense.
A second life planned in Spain
Eldense is playing this season in Liga 2, the antechamber of the Spanish elite. The club from the town of Elda, near Alicante in the southeast of the country, is currently 20e
out of 22 teams entered, with two units on the clock after four championship lifts. The operation, the amount of which would not have been revealed, would however involve an investment of more than 12 million euros – the last known offer for the takeover of the club in question.
According to information from the Iberian sports daily Marca, Lionel Messi and his family wish to return to live in Spain at the end of the sporting career of the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner and the end of his lease with Inter Miami. The operation should be formalized within a few days, as soon as the final legal details have been resolved, reports the publication in question.
