The Brazilian team, which wants to dominate South America, hopes to close the operation in the old continent before the end of the year.
Flamengo, a Brazilian Serie A team, has well advanced the purchase of Tondela, a team from the Portuguese first division, for a figure close to $ 58 million, as reported Record.
The Brazilian team, which wants to dominate South America, hopes to close the operation before the end of the year. This has been confirmed by Rodrigo Tostes, vice president of finances of the rojinegro club, in statements to Globe Sports: “This is just the first step. Potential investors are in talks. We want to have a club in Germany, Spain, France, China, the United States, Africa … It is not a project of a single club ”, he assures.
“We intend to reach the Europa League in three or four years, and the Champions League in eight,” he details, according to the newspaper. AS from Spain.
Tostes also explained the objectives and phases of the project at the Beira club: “We need three years to mature it, take the club to the top positions in the league. Then we will think about the second phase ”.
Although things will change at the club, since they want to “enter with the Flamengo brand” to take advantage of the “46 million fans” that the Brazilian club has, they want to “respect the tradition” of Tondela so as not to lose the “million or half million followers ”they have.
He also details why they chose Tondela: “We analyzed eight Portuguese clubs. Only six of them had a suitable structure for us and only two of these were in the first division. The Tondela is the only one that has a shareholder that controls the club and a well-located structure in the country, since it is the only representative of the central region of Portugal. In addition, Portugal is “the country in which the most volume of international negotiations have been carried out by the clubs between 2011 and 2020”.
El Tondela, trained by the Spanish Pako Ayestarán and whose president is former soccer player David Belenguer, is tenth in the table. After a bad start, with 5 defeats in 6 games, he has redirected the situation in recent weeks, achieving two consecutive victories against Famaliçao and Belenenses, in addition to going to the round at the Taça de Portugal.
In their squad they have the Spanish José Manuel Hernando Riol and Iker Undabarrena, as well as two players who have passed through our country such as Modibo Sagnan and Juan Manuel Boselli. (D)
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