Atletico-MG will receive a major investment in their SAF. The Rooster will receive about $ 140 million – approximately $ 770 million. Half of the amount will be invested by Rubens Menin, a majority partner of the Rooster SAF.
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The rest of the value, $ 70 million, will be invested by Marcelo Claure, a businessman who owns and president of Bolivar, Bolivia club.
But who is the entrepreneur? What is your fortune? THE Sporting News show.
Who is Marcelo Claure?
Born on December 9, 1970, Marcelo Claure is 54 years old. Born in La Paz, Bolivia, currently the businessman lives in Florida, in the United States.
Claure began his professional career involved in football. In 1993, after finishing a degree in Economic Sciences and Finance in the US, he worked in the international marketing part of the Bolivian Football Federation.
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In 1995, he returned to the United States, buying USA Wirelress, a cell phone distributor, which he sold the following year with great profit.
In 1996, he became president of Small World Communications, a communications company in California.
His first major deal was in 1997. The businessman founded BrighStar, a wireless company-focused company focused on the Latin American public.
In a short time, it became the most valuable company whose owner was a Latin in the US. In 2014, he sold the company to Sprint for about $ 1.26 billion, with Marcelo Claure maintaining 43% of the shares.
In 2008, he founded Baisa, an entity that operates Bolivar, from Bolivia, a club of which he owns and president. Under his command, the team won the Bolivian Championship nine times and arrived at a semifinal of Libertadores in 2014.
Still in the middle of football, he holds 35% of the shares of Girona, Spain, who played the Champions League last season. He was also one of the founders of Inter Miami along with David Beckham.
From 2014, Claure was Sprint’s president and CEO until 2018, becoming executive director from 2018 by 2020. He also led the company’s merger with T-Mobile, one of the main US telephone companies.
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From 2020 to 2022, it was CEO and COO of Softbank, a technology investment company with a portfolio of the company valued at $ 5 billion.
He left office and founded other companies, such as Bicycle Capital, also operates as vice president of Shein, a fashion company in Latin America.
It is also known for philanthropy, acting on programs to provide computers for students unable to purchase them.
What fortune of Marcelo Claure?
According to Bloomberg, in August 2022, Marcelo Claure has a fortune valued at $ 2 billion – about $ 11.2 billion reais.
The purposes of comparison, the owner of Atletico -MG SAF, Rubens Menin, had, in 2024, fortune valued at $ 1.9 billion – about $ 10.65 billion.
ATLETICO-MG RESULTS
- 07/27 – Flamengo 1 x 0 Atlético -MG – Brazilian Championship
- 07/24-Atletico-MG 0 (3×1) 1 Bucaramanga-Copa Sudamericana
- 07/20-Palmeiras 3 x 2 Atlético-MG-Brazilian Championship
- 07/17-Atlético Bucaramanga-COL 0 x 1 Atlético-MG-South American Cup
- 12/07 – Bahia 2 x 1 Atlético -MG – Brazilian Championship
Next Atletico-MG games
- 07/31-9:30 pm-Flamengo x Atlético-MG-Brazil Cup (Octaves, Ida)
- 03/08 – 6:30 pm – Atletico -MG x Bragantino – Brazilian Championship
- 08/06 – 9:30 pm – Atletico -MG x Flamengo – Brazil Cup (octaves, back)
- 08/10 – 16h – Vasco x Atlético -MG – Brazilian Championship
- 08/14 – 19h – Atletico -MG x Godoy Cruz – South American Cup (Octaves, Ida)
Atletico-MG classifications
- Brazilian Championship: 9th place
- Brazil Cup: octaves
- South American Cup: octaves
- Mineiro Championship: Champion
