US EditionMessi Acquires Spanish Fifth-Tier Club Ue Cornella
- On Thursday, Argentinian footballer Leo Messi formalized his 100 per cent acquisition of Spanish club UE Cornella, marking his first venture into owning a European football club.
- Renowned for its youth academy, the Baix Llobregat-based club developed players such as Jordi Alba and David Raya while operating as an institution within a working-class neighborhood near Barcelona.
- Previously scoring 672 goals in 778 games for FC Barcelona, Messi—who is 38 and plays for Inter Miami in the MLS—aims to guide the new acquisition toward professional status using a structured investment strategy.
- Currently competing in the fourth tier Tercera RFEF, the team has already secured a playoff spot, with the new ownership project aiming to drive sporting and institutional growth while maintaining local roots.
- Messi follows peers like David Beckham, who owns Inter Miami, and Cristiano Ronaldo, who invested in Almera, joining a growing trend of athlete-investors highlighting an increasing shift toward player-led club management.
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By Federico Leiva, CNN en Español “Argentine footballer and eight-time Ballon d'Or winner, Leo Messi, has finalized the acquisition of UE Cornellà.” With that brief introductory line, Unió Esportiva Cornellà of Spain shook the football world this Thursday when it announced that the club had been taken over by the Argentine star, who may never wear the club's colors, but will certainly decide its future. “With this operation, Messi reinforces his…
The Argentine and star of Inter Miami expands its influence on football with the acquisition of EU Cornellà, team of the Third RFEF
Lionel Messi has gone under the club owners! The Argentinian world star acquired the fifth-league club UE Cornella, as the club from the Barcelona metropolitan region announced on Thursday ...Close ties with BarcelonaThe step would underline Messi's close ties with Barcelona and his commitment to promoting sport and local talent in Catalonia, wrote Cornella.Messi's long-standing team-mate Jordi Alba or Arsenal-Keeper David Raya played in the clu…
The Argentine star Lionel Messi shakes football again, but this time outside the court. The captain of the Albiceleste team and current footballer of the Inter Miami CF has taken an important step in his face as an investor by acquiring the EU Cornellà, an institution that competes in the Third RFEF, the fifth category of Spanish football, transaction considered “the news of the century”.The Catalan club confirmed the operation by means of a sta…
Španski tim Kornelja objavio je da je Lionel Mesi novi vlasnik cluba.
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