Proceeds of the auctioned ticket for a pleasant between PSG and an all-star Saudi XI that includes Ronaldo will go to charity.
A Saudi actual property mogul has received a ticket to see Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi face off in a pleasant after bidding $2.6m at public sale, an official stated.
The match on Thursday in Riyadh is about to pit Messi’s Paris Saint-Germain in opposition to a choose aspect made up of gamers from Ronaldo’s new membership Al Nassr and their Saudi rivals Al Hilal.
It would mark the primary time Ronaldo has performed any soccer within the kingdom since signing a contract with Al Nassr that runs till 2025 and is value greater than 200 million euros ($214m), in response to sources near the membership.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner is scheduled to make his Saudi Professional League debut for Al Nassr on Sunday.
To advertise Thursday’s pleasant, Turki al-Sheikh, an adviser on the Royal Court docket and head of Saudi Arabia’s Normal Leisure Authority, introduced a charity public sale for a particular ticket that will include perks like picture alternatives with gamers and entry to the locker rooms.
Bidding began at 1 million Saudi riyals ($266,000) and the public sale closed at 11:30pm (20:30 GMT) on Tuesday.
Al-Sheikh then introduced on Twitter the successful bid of 10 million riyals ($2.6m) had come from Mushref al-Ghamdi.
“Congratulations, you deserve it, and should God reward you with good,” Sheikh stated.
The proceeds from the public sale are because of go to the nationwide charity marketing campaign often called Ehsan.
Apart from Messi, the PSG gamers anticipated to play on Thursday embrace France striker Kylian Mbappe and Achraf Hakimi, who final 12 months in Qatar helped make Morocco the primary Arab and African staff to achieve the World Cup semifinals.
The Saudi choose staff consists of Salem al-Dawsari, who scored the successful objective within the Inexperienced Falcons’ shock defeat of Argentina within the World Cup’s group stage.
