Brazilian ex-footballers Roberto Carlos and Ronaldo will buy, along with other partners, Internacional de Limeira, a club that currently competes in Serie C of the Brazilian Championshipas announced by the former Canarinha side.
“Ronaldo and I are now buying Inter de Limeira together with Enrico and two other partners of ours, an African and an Arab,” Roberto Carlos revealed in an interview with the program Debate in Gamefrom the Wamo channel, cited this Wednesday by the country’s main sports media.
The former Inter Milan and Real Madrid player explained that, “little by little”, they intend to get involved again in football in the interior of Brazil with two objectives: “continue to develop great players for the” Brazilian team and “reorganize those clubs.”
In that sense, Roberto Carlos also mentioned União São João, a club in which he played during his adolescence and where his nephew currently plays. “I’m going to try to get to know these inland clubs a little more to be able to help them, both to get sponsors and to make inland football once again the football of our time.”he anticipated.
Internacional de Limeira is a club from the interior of the state of São Paulo that experienced its best period in the 1980s, when it won the Paulista Championship, in 1986, and the title of the second division of the Brazilian league, in 1988.
He currently leads the Series C of the Brazilian Championship with 25 points in 14 rounds, one more than Brusque and Santa Cruz. Founded on October 5, 1913 In the city of Limeira, the Associação Atlética Internacional emerged from an old local team known as Barroquinha.
The club adopted the name Internacional in tribute to the Japanese, Italian, German and Portuguese immigrants who settled in the municipality at that time.
The purchase of the São Paulo team by Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos are part of the transformation that Brazilian football is experiencing, where more and more clubs are adopting the public limited company model. and become private companies.
Ronaldo already has experience in club administration. The former Real Madrid and Barcelona forward announced in December 2021 the purchase of Cruzeiro, from Belo Horizonte, the club where he trained before making the leap to European football. He later sold it, in April 2024, to a local businessman.
O Phenomenon He also acquired control of Real Valladolid in 2018, although he sold his stake last year, in the midst of a deep sporting crisis for the Spanish team.