The MLS season has been over for several weeks now. The Los Angeles Galaxy won a 6th championship title in their history, defeating New York Red Bull in the final (2-1). An outcome which means that for his second season in the United States, Lionel Messi has still not won a major trophy with Inter Miami, which forced the Florida management to thank Tata Martino and call for help from Javier Mascherano on the Herons bench. As the MLS campaign begins on February 22 with the first day of the regular season, the former FC Barcelona player is ready for a new professional year in his career. But at 37, Lionel Messi must also prepare for his post-career and like Cristiano Ronaldo who multiplies his business as a businessman, the Argentinian has also followed suit.
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«I know that as soon as I think that I can no longer perform, that I no longer enjoy playing or that I am no longer able to help my teammates, I stop. I know when I'm good and when I'm bad. For my retirement, it doesn't matter how old I am. If I feel good, I will continue to play. I will try to do something I love in a new role», declared the native of Rosario in the show Big Timea podcast broadcast by Saudi television, a country for which he is tourism ambassador. If it is not yet retirement time for the Pulga, the former FC Barcelona player is already putting his pawns forward for a possible retraining in business and the economy. In any case, on the eve of the year 2025, Lionel Messi, the entrepreneur and not the football player, received very good news that the Argentine newspaper Clarin detailed at length.
Lionel Messi will be listed on the stock market
Lionel Messi has reached another milestone in the business world: his Spanish listed real estate investment company (SOCIMI), called Rostower Building and headquartered in Barcelona, has started trading on the Barcelona Stock Exchange. The Argentine legend is the president of this company introduced on the European Stock Exchange of the portfolio (a European alternative market supervised by the Bank of Spain) with a reference price of 57.4 euros per share, which represents a total value of 223 .2 million euros. His wife Antonela Roccuzzo is the first vice-president. Most of the company's assets are in the Catalonia region, where Messi lived for more than two decades until 2021, when he left for Paris Saint-Germain. Concretely, the company of the Barcelona legend has six MiM hotels managed by the operator Majestic in Andorra, Baqueira, Ibiza, Mallorca, Sitges and Sotogrande, as well as an additional establishment in the Aran Valley, according to the newspaper La Vanguardia. It also has a six-story, 4,000 square meter building in Barcelona, with offices and premises, a 2,500 square meter warehouse in Sitges, currently rented by a supermarket chain, and a restaurant in the town of Castelldefels.
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Several properties in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Castelldefels, Cala Tarida, Paris and London are also added to the list of real estate. With the stock market, Lionel Messi intends to optimize and consolidate his investments in the hotel and real estate sector. SOCIMI, as it is known in Spain, is listed under the symbol ERTW on the Portfolio Stock Exchange and its activity focuses on the acquisition and promotion of real estate for rent. Besides Messi himself and Antonela, Edificio Rostower's board of directors includes Alfonso Nebot, who heads Messi's family asset management office and will serve as second vice-president, and economist Ramón Adell, advisor to Naturgy. The company moved from investment company status to SOCIMI on December 11. These types of companies benefit from a favorable tax regime, since they pay a corporate tax of 1%, provided they distribute at least 80% of their profits in the form of dividends. Certainly everything that Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccitini touches turns into solid gold…
Pub. the 31/12/2024 19:00
– UPDATE 01/01/2025 02:53
