{"id":509193,"date":"2026-02-26T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509193"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:40:27","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-becomes-co-owner-of-spanish-club-almeria","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-becomes-co-owner-of-spanish-club-almeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo becomes co-owner of Spanish club Almeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has become co-owner of Spanish 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-division team Almeria by acquiring a \u00bc share in the side.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese football superstar has bought his stake in Almeria, which is owned by a Saudi Arabian investment consortium led by Mohammed Al-Khereiji.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always wanted to contribute to football, beyond the pitch,\u201d Cristiano shared. \u201cNow I have that opportunity as UD Almeria is a Spanish team with strong foundations and clear potential for growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese star spent 9 years in Spain as part of Real Madrid, as he triumphed with LaLiga 2 times and lifted the UCL 4 times before leaving to sign with Juventus 8 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo has been part of the Saudi league since 2022, when he inked a deal with Al-Nassr, and is the best-paid footballer in the history of the game, earning almost 200 million pounds per year.<\/p>\n<p>Almeria were founded in 1989 and are now in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place in the Segunda Division, only 2 points behind the leaders Real Racing, with 15 matches until the end of the campaign of the Spanish 2<sup>nd<\/sup> division.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cristiano Ronaldo, through his company CR7 Sports Investments, has reportedly acquired a 25 percent stake in Almeria \u2705\ufe0f\ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qub3CmIt1S\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qub3CmIt1S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/2027050281268343065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has become co-owner of Spanish 2nd-division team Almeria by acquiring a \u00bc share in the side. The Portuguese football superstar has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":504963,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17961],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Portuguese legend continues with his investments.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509194,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509193\/revisions\/509194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509193"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509193"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}