How did PSG’s owner raise his fortune: he wants Lionel Messi in Mauricio Pochettino’s team

East tennis career? Well not for everybody. Names like Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal are used to earn millions and millions of dollars in prizes and in endorsements. But some others struggle to succeed and barely make any sense of profit after investing lots of money time and effort to grow in the sports.

When they fail they look outside for some new challenges. And they ultimately find these in some other activities or some other sports like soccer what is the case of owner of PSG runners up in the last with a Champions League on currently on the way to the quarterfinals after their outstanding forward to one win over Barcelona at the Camp Nou stadium.

Who is the owner? His name is Nasser Al-Khelaifi, he comes from Qatar. He was born in 1974 and is son and grandson of fishers. Despite being born in Qatar, he was not automatically grown in a wealthy family, but in a mid-class one. In an interview with Spanish newspaper El País, he stated it all began with tennis.

He was 14 years old when he was practicing in his club, and suddenly met a wealthy 8-year-old boy: it was Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, current Emir of Qatar. They became best friends, and even represented their country in the famous Davis Cup. But he only earned $16,000 from playing. Now, turn thousand into ‘billion’. Yes, his fortune is $16 billion.

Al-Khelaifi reached 995th place in the ATP world ranking and retired by 2002 to become a businessman. His close friend belonged to the royal family and created the Qatar Investment Authority and later the Qatar Sports Investment, to finance sporting projects in the whole world. Then, he founded beIN Media Group.