Ronaldo Nazario tests positive for COVID-19 and will be the great absentee at the party for the 101 years of Cruzeiro

The ex-footballer Ronaldo Nazario He tested positive for COVID-19 and will not be able to attend 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 of 90% of the shares of Cruzeiro was announced on December 18 and this January 2 it was expected that the Phenomenon will lead a series of events that will be celebrated for the 101 years of the club, which since 2019 he has been in the second division.

However, his presence was frustrated after the positive for COVID-19, which was confirmed this Sunday, according to a statement from the club in which it is also reported that Ronaldo is with “mild symptoms“, but he will remain “confined” and “at rest”.

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

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

Ronaldo, who is also the majority shareholder of the Valladolid Spanish, has made some controversial decisions to deal with that situation and begin to put the club’s finances in order, whose debts are calculated above 300 million dollars.

The first of them was the removal of the coach Wanderlei Luxembourg, who had led him in the Brazilian national 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 Division, but was unsuccessful. (D)