The football team of Ferencváros has just won the championship, but the news is already about which company the club will sign a sponsorship contract with next season. A few days ago, Nemzeti Sport only floated the fact that the company with which Fradi is negotiating is a “global company interested in several industries, which has supported a BL team this season and previously also a top league club”, that it is a lot of money, and that the negotiations have been going on for a year and they can announce the deal in the next couple of weeks.
Blikk has now named the company, the newspaper writes, it is an open secret that it is the Russian state gas company Gazprom. According to the reports of the National Sport, the BL team (the Serbian Zvezda) and the top league (the German Schalke) would be the right choice. Blikk writes that the sum involved is several billion forints.
By the way, Gazprom really likes to sponsor sports teams, in addition to the two European football clubs mentioned, it was previously a part owner of the American baseball team Houston Astros, has turned as a sponsor in Formula 1, was an official sponsor of FIFA for many years, and also has its own football team, the St. Petersburg Zenith.
The war launched against Ukraine (which Russia finances to a large extent from the company’s natural gas revenues) has changed the situation quite a bit, the appearance of Gazprom’s logo on the jersey of the champion team of an EU country would certainly cause serious indignation – even if nothing forbids it on paper.
