OFFICIAL: Ronaldo Nazario tested positive for COVID-19

OFFICIAL: Ronaldo Nazario tested positive for COVID-19

Another football star ‘falls’ this Sunday because of the coronavirus. The ex-footballer Ronaldo Nazario has tested positive in COVID-19 and he will not be able to be present at the party for the 101 years of Cruzeiro, of which he has been the majority shareholder since last month, the Brazilian club itself reported this Sunday.

The acquisition by Ronaldo 90% of the shares of the Cruzeiro It was announced on December 18 and this January 2 it was planned that the ‘Phenomenon’ will lead a series of events that will be celebrated for the 101 years of the club, which since 2019 is in the Second Division.

However, its presence was thwarted after the positive in covid, which was confirmed this same Sunday, according to a club statement in which it is also reported that Ronaldo he is with “mild symptoms” but will remain “confined” and “at rest.”

The former player began his professional career precisely in the Cruzeiro, in which he was active between 1992 and 1994, when he began his European adventure, which led him to PSV Eindhoven, Barcelona, Inter, Real Madrid and culminated in Milan, from which in 2008 he returned to Brazil to retire at the Corinthians, in 2011.

The Cruzeiro faces a very serious financial crisis and Ronaldo will pay 400 million reais (about 72.7 million dollars) for 90% of the shares of the entity, now converted into a commercial corporation.

Ronaldo, who is also the majority shareholder of Spanish Valladolid, has already made some controversial decisions to face this situation and begin to put the club’s finances in order, whose debts are estimated to be over 300 million dollars.

The first of these was the dismissal of coach Wanderlei Luxemburg, who had directed him in the Brazilian team and Real Madrid and had been in charge of Cruzeiro since the middle of last year, when he arrived with the mission of taking the club back to the First League. Division, but was not successful.