Sunderland Co-owner Juan Sartori is considering investing in a third football club. The businessman is looking at a club in his hometown.
The businessman from Uruguay initially became associated with the Black Cats through the Madrox Group, which also included Charlie Methven and Stewart Donald. Although Sartori still owns a portion of the club, Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, the current chairman and biggest shareholder of Sunderland, is currently in charge of operations.
The 43-year-old’s portfolio includes more clubs than just Sunderland, but he is currently seeking to expand it.
Juan Sartori wants involvement in a third football club
In addition to his small ownership in the Black Cats, Sartori is already connected to the French team AS Monaco. The owner and president is Dmitry Rybolovlev, his father-in-law. The Uruguayan has held the position of club vice-president before.
Now, the Sunderland co-owner’s attention is focused on his native country, where he aspires to play a major role in one of the largest teams there. Sartori aspires to be president of Club Nacional de Football, one of Uruguay’s most well-liked teams.
Article Nine of the club’s constitution stipulates that presidential candidates must have been members for at least eight years, thus there should be some difficulties with this notion, according to the Sunderland Echo, Sartori only has six.
Sartori has already campaigned for a prominent role in his native nation. He even made an attempt to run for the nation’s top office. He entered the race to represent the National Party in the 2019 presidential contest. Luis Lacalle Pou, who went on to become president in 2020, narrowly defeated him for the position of party head with 20.68% of the vote.
Although it was anticipated that he would run for office again this year, he is not participating in the primary elections that determine who party’s front-runners will be.
Sartori’s estimated net worth was £80 million per The Sunderland Echo.
Sunderland doesn’t need Juan Sartori to be distracted just yet
Although he does not own a controlling stake in the Black Cats, the 43-year-old might spare himself from taking on so many significant duties. Although Sartori does attend board meetings, according to The Athletic, he does it from the comfort of either of his residences in Monaco or Montevideo rather than Wearside.
He clearly has aspirations to become president of Club Nacional de Football, but Sunderland doesn’t need one of its owners preoccupied with other matters, particularly at this moment when there is uncertainty around the appointment of the team’s next permanent manager.
This dream of becoming the president of Club Nacional does seem a bit down the road because of the short length of his current membership with the club, but his political ventures and success in business show that he is an aspirational man if nothing else, and Sartori is likely to keep pursuing that role.