Budding Ronaldos get a shot at big time
With Cristiano Ronaldo (below) about to earn an estimated HK$3.8 million a week kicking a football about for Real Madrid, perhaps it's time to start rethinking your kids' career choices.
How timely, then, that Allianz Global Investors has bucked the trend of most financial companies that have cut back on their sports sponsorship and come up with an international football camp for teenagers in Germany next month.
For the first time, the group, which has more than Euro1 trillion (HK$10.76 trillion) in assets under management through different arms such as Pimco, Oppenheimer Capital and RCM, is sponsoring 32 youngsters between the ages of 14 and 16 from nine countries - including four from Hong Kong - to a five-day training camp from August 26.
It is being organised with the help of German football giants Bayern Munich.
Allianz is the club's official partner and has naming rights to the magnificent Allianz Arena that was built for the 2006 World Cup.