Gerard Pique running company making millions that even Lionel Messi has invested in

Gerard Pique is balancing soccer at Barcelona with working a million-pound firm, which Lionel Messi has invested in.

The Spaniard has gained every part with the Nou Camp giants, with eight La Liga honours and three Champions Leagues to his title.

However the 34-year-old has not been as concerned with the squad this season as a knee damage has saved him out of motion for 23 video games.

Pique, although, has been capable of hold himself busy with working an organization making thousands and thousands.

The centre-back is an govt at Kosmos Holdings, the corporate he based with buddies in 2017.

They’re an funding agency which has predominantly been concerned within the historic Davis Cup tennis competitions.

It an enormous venturer the 34-year-old, with the deal signed at $3b over 25 years to affix the competitors alongside the Worldwide Tennis Federation.

And it has even attracted the eye of Barca’s celebrity Messi, who invested within the enterprise two years in the past.

Talking in 2019, Pique mentioned: “Leo is aware of greater than anybody about this as a result of he’s concerned in Kosmos.

“He’s a accomplice, he’s a part of the Kosmos household, he likes tennis.

“We’ve a relationship of 18 years since he arrived on the membership and I at all times attempt to share with him issues I am considering, he likes to be a part of it and he wished to be a part of it.”

Pique and Messi’s cash has additionally helped Kosmos Holdings purchase fifth-tier soccer membership FC Andorra.

Shopping for the membership in 2018, the Barca defender is almost all proprietor and has helped them attain the third tier in only a yr.

And CEO Javier Alonso revealed final yr how the 34-year-old fills his position as govt president for the enterprise.

The chief mentioned: “He’s not within the particulars of the day-to-day. However now that we’re near the Davis Cup he is aware of the undertaking completely.

“He trains with FC Barcelona both within the morning or within the afternoon.

“He then has half the day free, and we are able to embody him within the basic facet of what’s going on.

“He would get entangled extra within the promotion facet than in operations, which is one thing he would have much less information about and be much less lively in.

“What we do right here in Kosmos is that Gerard desires, and we attempt to make his desires actuality. He has a variety of implausible concepts and we simply attempt to go after them, to make them actual.

“He has a privileged thoughts and is considering on a regular basis. He has concepts virtually day-after-day. We then sit down with him, the group, and undergo the thought and see if we are able to make it actual or not. From then we transfer ahead. Every part we do comes a technique or one other from Gerard’s imaginative and prescient.”

Pique’s pal Messi additionally is aware of methods to spend his cash, forking out of a £7m flat in Miami which even has a car lift.

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