The ‘Hand of God’ has moved on from coaching the National Teams to the next best thing – scoping out young talent to feed into clubs and working as a distributor. He probably looked back and realized the folks who made the nice bank were the old creepy guys who gave young boys money and clothes to wear and watched them run around and sweat day in, day out.
So Ronaldo put on his Chris Hansen glasses and with the help of Zico, launched the site pnera.com. The new site is aiming to the be the “Facebook of young Brazilian soccer players”, since everything tagged ‘Facebook’ is the mental equivalent of printing cash.
Though the site is open to adult athletes as well as teens, only those between the ages of 10 and 18 will be able to upload their one minute “mad skillz” video in hopes of landing a tryout with a major Brazilian club. The video that gets the most votes wins.
Is this ticking enough “pedophile alert” check boxes for you?
According to the news report (Spanish link), Ronaldo says “he wouldn’t think twice about it if I had a chance to send in a video and then train with a big club.”
“The site isn’t just for young people, but also for athletes who want to create and sheir their profile,” says Zico, who is currently the head coach of the Iraqi national football team.
The first UF commenter to navigate the Portuguese login registration and receive a creepy come-on email from a dirty old Brazilian wins a gold star.
So…will groupies now become scouts too with this website?
Translating the website in Chrome shows me:
“Talk about the naked guys, the Classic weekend and find people passionate about football. All in real time”
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So, yes. This freaks me the fuck out.
Per the translation, i’m sure the groupies will be all over pnera.com
Poor-spelling fans of bagels and panini are going to be in for a surprise when they try to find out what the soup of the day is.