Mexican millionaire wants to buy Moscow "Spartak"

The Mexican millionaire Jorge Vergar announced his intention to buy the Russian football club Spartak. The owner of Omnilife for the production of various food additives (for athletes, for losing weight, for the elderly, etc.), sold mainly in America, already owns two football clubs - the Mexican Guadalahara and Costa Rican "Sapasissa", and also successfully acts as a producer of films, reports "Soviet Sport" .

“We really have an interest in Russian football business,” Vergar said in an interview with the Spanish agency EFE. - Omnilife has already extended its activities to Russia, buying a football club is part of this project. "

According to Vergara, he has already met people associated with Russian football. He knows that Spartak is one of the most popular Russian clubs, but still does not have its own stadium. "We are also familiar with the situation in other Russian clubs. When our company is fixed in Russia, we will look for the opportunity to become the owners of one of them," the millionaire said.

Apparently, Vergar considers the investment in public projects (football clubs, film production) as a strategic direction in the development of his business, thus advertising Omnilife in new markets for their products.

At the beginning of September 2003, the Vergarian interview was widespread by Reuters, in which he reported the coming negotiations on the purchase of Madrid "Atletico", as well as the intention to buy a certain club in the United States, located in the region with a predominance of the Spanish -language population. It was expected that Vergar would spend no less for the Spanish club than the purchase of Guadalahara at the end of 2002 - that is, $ 120 million. However, at the moment, not one of the advertised purchases has taken place.