A Ciper report revealed the businesses that link Victoriano Cerda, the Kiblisky family and Michael Clark, the latter president of Azul Azul, businessmen who are or were linked to Chilean soccer
Entrepreneurs with a very high purchasing power have become, mainly in the last two decades and with the massification of public limited companies that came to save clubs from bankruptcy, in protagonists of Chilean professional football.
Soccer moves millions and today much of the existing scene in the First Division and First B knows that. Export of player passes, sales of television rights, products associated with the clubs, business management, among others, are the top moves.
A new edge of all that was revealed by the Journalistic Research Center, Ciperin an extensive report entitled “Owners of football: the businesses that link Victoriano Cerda, the Kiblisky family and the president of Azul Azul”.
There, important financial movements of businessmen linked to important national football clubs are mentioned, as is the case of University of Chile, Huachipato and Ñublense.
Charles Heller In 2020, it opened a process to sell 63% of the shares it owned in Azul Azul, the concessionaire of the Universidad de Chile club, as well as 46% of isapre Colmena.
In the case of the collegiate club concessionaire, the shares were acquired by a conglomerate led by michael clarktoday president of Azul Azul, while in the sale of Colmena the buyer was the Nexus Health group, whose controllers are partners of Victorian Sowowner of Huachipato, and the Kiblisky familyformer owners of Ñublense. Both purchases were agreed in April 2021.
Not everything ends there. “Michael Clark, through his company Redwood Capital, provided financial advice to Nexus Health between 2017 and 2020. And Victoriano Cerda has also been an advisor and lobbyist for that same group. In fact, Nexus acquired the Más Vida isapre, which was controlled by Cerda”, mentions the investigation.
The networks between the businessmen who are and/or were part of the aforementioned clubs are spreading. Through Redwood Capital, Clark provided services to Kiblisky businesses, such as Cellcorp International -a company managed from Panama- and the Ñublense soccer club.
“Since Heller sold its shares in Azul Azul, the suspicions that the real buyers of the ‘U’ concessionaire are not the ones that were publicly reported have not stopped growing,” Ciper mentions. It is speculated that Victorian Sow and the Kibliski family they also acquired ‘bonds or participations’.
Finally, it was made official that the private investment fund (FIP) Tactical Sport, in which they participate michael clark and the sartor groupacquired Heller’s shares in the ‘Romantic Traveler’.
“From Tactical Sport, Sartor and Azul Azul, ruled out that RVX -the company where Cerda, the Kiblisky family and the owners of Nexus share seats-, has any link with the” U “”, they pointed out.
The report also mentions the RVX businesses and off shore businesses, all linked between these ‘partners’ of national soccer.