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20.12.2020. 13:20 – 20.12.2020. 15:16
Romanian John Cirjak is 80 years old today, and in Serbia he is also known as the godfather of Bobo Živojinović and Lepa Brena.
Lepa Brena and Boba Živojinović, Photo: E-stock
After the end of Roland Garros, one of the issues for many is the gains that the tennis players have obtained. Thus, Rafael Nadal from Paris went to his royal palace in Mallorca, which is richer at 2,250,000 euros, Tim received 1,180,000 euros and Djokovic and Federer received 590,000 each as semifinalists for 2019.
This is the amount of money that former tennis players could only dream of. Those who played tennis during the 1970s and won tournaments, won token money today.
One of them is the Romanian John Cirjak, who is the richest athlete of all time, whose salary is estimated at 2 billion dollars. He is also the only former athlete to make the billionaire list, and therefore the richest man in the sports world of all time.
John Cirjak, Photo: YouTube / Printscreen
For comparison, Roger Federer, who ranks second in the list of the richest tennis players, has a salary of 450 million dollars, Novak’s fortune is estimated at 200 million dollars and Nadal’s at 180 million dollars. Dollars. So even when Novak, Roger and Rafa combine the winnings, they can’t have even half of Cirjak’s fortune.
But Cirjak didn’t make money from tennis alone, especially not from tournaments, which he didn’t earn much during his career. He won Munich in singles in 1970, and that same year he won the doubles trophy at Roland Garros.
He was most successful in doubles and won a total of 22 titles there, but he made almost all the money at the end of his career.
He was a successful agent for several tennis players, including Boris Becker at the time he was number 1, then Stefi Graf, Marat Safin, Goran Ivanišević … He made a lot of money out of it, but made most of his wealth only after The 1990s.
Cirjak was born in Brasov, Transylvania, on May 9, 1939, and at the age of 15 he was working in a truck factory. At the time, he was allowed to work six hours a day, instead of eight, in order to play hockey, which he trained professionally before tennis, and even participated in the Innsbruck Olympics in 1964. He later moved to the world of the tennis, and after that, he began his entrepreneurial career.
John Cirjak, Photo: Profimedia
Cirjak recognized what the fall of the Berlin Wall meant for humanity, so, after the fall of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime, he returned to Romania. He knew that the capital of the West would rush towards the poor Ruuns, he used his contacts from Germany to become a representative of Metro AG, and then Mercedes.
In addition, he invested that money in an insurance company, a private bank (which brought him the greatest wealth), an airline, a travel agency. Today, he employs about 20,000 people and is the director of the Masters Madrid tournament, which wants to rise to the level of the Grand Slam tournament.
Aside from business, Cirjak also had a turbulent private life. Today he lives in Monte Carlo with three children whom he married, but he himself says that he has 32 illegitimate children, and also takes care of 300 abandoned children, for whom he built a real little private paradise in Brasov.
Cirjak is also known in Serbia as the godfather of Lepa Brena and Bobo Živojinović, and in May 2014, during the terrible floods that hit our country, he donated 100,000 euros to help those in danger of extinction.
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