The player of the Bayern Munich David Alaba has acquired 2% of Austria in Vienna, the team where he made his professional debut and which is in such a precarious economic situation that it was at risk of losing its license, reports the newspaper Kurier.
That medium ensures that the Austrian player has paid 500,000 euros in call options for 2% of Austria in Vienna, to whose sports school he arrived in 2002 and in whose subsidiary he made his debut in the second division with only fifteen years.
Austria have been Austrian Bundesliga champions 24 times, with what is a club that accumulates more titles, behind the Vienna Rapid.
The team, which accumulates 78 million euros in debt, has launched a project to refloat its finances through the cooperation of medium-sized companies in the country, to which, according to Kurier, Alaba has joined through his father.
The club's attempt to get out of the crisis with the help of the Insignia company as a strategic investor did not quite work and the club, although it has already secured the license to continue playing, you need to clean up your situation and decide in the coming weeks on the renewal of your technical team.
Since joining Bayern Munich in 2008, Praise it has won two Champions Leagues, two UEFA Super Cups, ten Bundesliga championships and six German cups, among other titles.
The player ends his contract with the German club this summer and the media speculate that teams like Real Madrid, Chelsea or PSG have an interest in signing him.