(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, 22 FEB – Investment funds and businessmen from the United States have also discovered Brazilian football. In fact, after the Miami fund ‘777 Partners’, the same one that owns Genoa in Italy, bought the property of Vasco da Gama, now it’s up to another club in Rio de Janeiro. The American businessman John Textor, who has just acquired control of Botafogo, has in fact arrived in the ‘Cidade Maravilhosa’, where he will also spend the last period of the Carnival. His first move was to sign Luis Castro, former Porto and Shakhtar Donetsk currently in Qtaar at the helm of Al-Duhail, given that Portuguese coaches are in vogue in Brazil.
The agreement is practically done, but to release it, a penalty of about 900 thousand euros must be paid, which for Textor will not be a problem: “Castro is worth the price that must be paid – explained the US investor – because with him our chances of winning will increase. “
Now the next goal is to convince Edison Cavani to wear the ‘Fogao’ shirt from July: “I can definitely give him more than Barcelona offers him,” said Textor, who is also trying to acquire a minority stake in Porto. (“I also want to invest in Portuguese football”) to create a sort of twinning between this club and Botafogo, “something that would bring – he argues – various benefits”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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