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Brazil legend Ronaldo in race for Brazilian Football Federation presidency
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Brazil legend Ronaldo in race for Brazilian Football Federation presidency

[ad_1] Unlike several other legends, including his great peer in Real Madrid. Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo had stayed away from the game, apart from fleeting stints as a media pundit. But the stalwart forward has set his eyes on becoming the president if his country’s football federation. “I can’t return to the field as many of you ask me to do,” Ronaldo wrote on Instagram. “And, honestly, I don’t even think that our biggest defeats in recent years were within the four lines. They were not televised. We need to look outside the spotlight. Into the institution,” he said. “My motivations for this candidacy are countless and perhaps the biggest of them is to believe that I can truly contribute to regain respect for Brazilian football,” he added. Since winning the 2002 World Cup, their fifth—Ro...
The Saudi prince and his financial calculations fuelling the 2034 Football World Cup dreams
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The Saudi prince and his financial calculations fuelling the 2034 Football World Cup dreams

[ad_1] Mohammed Bin Salman — MBS for his devout—once splurged half a billion dollars on a yacht party for his friends. The Saudi Arabia crown prince, the man behind bringing the 2034 FIFA World Cup, gifted Rolls Royce to his country’s team that defeated Argentina in the Qatar World Cup. He reportedly purchased, with a proxy, a French château worth $300 million in Versailles; coughed up $450.3 million to fetch Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. But he is austere and stern with his words. He speaks straight and blunt, with no regal flourishes, no hollow diplomatic fervour. Rather, he speaks like a businessman fuelled by vaulting ambition, as he did when the Fox News’ anchor sought his opinion on “sport washing” allegations. “If sport washing is going to increase my GDP by way of 1%, then...