It's no surprise that after triumphing in elite sports, many athletes decide to enter the business world after their retirement. Some clear examples from the Argentinian community are Manu Ginobili or the Kun Agüero, who after their retirement have been involved in investing in companies, the real estate sector, soccer teams and even eSports teams.
In this way, the former basketball player Luis Scola Follow in the footsteps of your compatriots joining Reental.
As some of you may already know in Reental We have “signed” Luis Scola as a partner and ambassador of the leading firm in the Tokenization of real estate. From this position, the former Argentinian basketball player and sports legend will be responsible for supporting and working to achieve the company's goal of “helping to educate” in financial matters, discovering the benefits of blockchain in the investment world.
“We have an ambitious goal: to share in our investments anyone, to improve your financial health. In this regard, we are sure that someone of Luis' prestige and recognition will bring this message to everyone,” explained our CEO, Eric Sanchez.
In his opinion,”Scola represents the main values of sport: sacrifice, the search for excellence and teamwork”; values that Eric (CEO of Reental) sees as essential to be present in Reental. In addition, he believes that “this new addition is a validation that we are on the right track and that there are more people thinking like us”.
For its part, Luis Scola has decided to join the project to “do my bit for a young and innovative company, which unites real estate investments with blockchain technology, facilitating the democratization of investments and the access of all to products that until now were reserved for minority groups”.
Winner, in 2021, of the Diploma of Merit of the Konex Award as one of the five best basketball players of the last decade in Argentina, Scola It was part of the call Golden Generation of the Albiceleste basketball team, remembered for the fruitful harvest of titles and medals they won, including two FIBA Americas championships (2002 and 2011), the 2008 FIBA Diamond Ball, the silver medal in the Indianapolis World Basketball Championship (2002) and the one in China (2019), the gold medal in the Athens Olympics (2004) and the bronze medal in the Beijing Games (2008), as well as the gold medal in the 2019 Pan American Games.
In Spain, he played with Gijón Basketball, which he helped to climb to the first division, and with Baskonia, with whom he won an ACB League championship (2002), three King's Cups (2002, 2004 and 2006) and three Spanish Super Cups (2005, 2006 and 2007). The Houston Rockets, Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets are some of the teams he has played for in the NBA.
Professionally retired, this Argentinian sports legend became a majority member of the Pallacanestro Varese, an Italian LBA basketball team of which he was already the executive director.
In addition, together with the former basketball player Jon Fatelevich, co-founded the platform Plus Stadium, dedicated to the sale of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) related to the world of sports for collectors and investors.
Scola He thus demonstrates that his good work, his desire to improve and his search for excellence on the court continue to apply them in the business world.