Four ex-Athletic players on wealth, risky buys and family business | OneFootball

Navarrese ex-Athletic quartet Carlos Gurpegi, Javi Martínez, Cuco Ziganda and Andoni Goikoetxea have discussed how they invested their earnings, the hits and the misses.

Javi Martínez, who spent nine years at Bayern Munich, recalled team dinners costing €10,000 settled by a card draw. "We put our cards together and the waiter picked one. Luckily, it never fell on me," he said on the podcast Los fulanos. He said team-mates ordered €500 wines, and he added cola to make a kalimotxo.

After five years in Qatar, Martínez said Doha’s property market is tightly controlled by large holdings and hard to access alone. He owns a home there to live in, and in Spain runs property deals, start-ups and promotions with his brother and partners, targeting bulk buys and resale.

Gurpegi said he erred with two flats in Bucharest after being told the market would boom. "I sold up, lost more than half, and now I prefer tangible things".

Goikoetxea said former executive Fernando Murguia guided his early buys from their Tajonar days. "Now I have several flats and premises, all rented". "Closing a clothes shop we opened was the happiest day".

Ziganda said his family pivoted when Danone’s Ulzama plant closed, buying cattle to produce dairy. "Thirty years on, it is still ours and sells across Spain and the south of France".

Source: El Correo

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