Manchester City owner Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan was appointed vice president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday. by his own brother and head of state of the small Arab nation, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, reports the official Emirati news agency, WAM. “With the approval of the Supreme Federal Council, Mohamed bin Zayed issued a decision to appoint his brother, Mansour bin Zayed, as Deputy President of the State,” the agency said in a brief announcement.
WAM added that the owner of Manchester City, in the English Premier League, He will share this position with the country’s current vice president, Mohamed bin Rashid, who is also the ruler of the emirate of Dubai. Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, better known to the press as Sheikh Mansur since he bought the English club in 2008, was born in Abu Dhabi in 1970, a year before his father, the late Zayed bin Sultan, united the seven emirates into one. country. Since the early 2000s he has run major Abu Dhabi financial institutions and even the powerful Emirates International Oil Investment Company, which is now partially absorbed by the multi-billion dollar state investment fund Mubadala.
Sheikh Mansour was also one of the first Emiratis to dare to invest millions in overseas businesses, and in 2008 he ventured out to acquire Manchester City., now one of the biggest clubs in England, with a fee of €250 million. His appointment as vice-president of one of the richest countries on the planet comes at a time when the Premier League has accused the English club of more than a hundred financial irregularities in the last decade.
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