It has become fashionable because of his interest in buying the Valencia, but the Prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail ibni Sultan IbrahimHe has been a true football fan for many years. He has had and has relationships with players, coaches and presidents from all over the world. As a curiosity, even a son of Joan Laporta, Pol, belonged to the club he owns, the Johor Darul Takzim. It was in 2018. I played in the second team and sometimes I trained with the first. He then left on loan to Vilaverdense, from the Portuguese third division
Even the current candidate for president of the Barça has been invited to visit him, as on one occasion in 2016. Laporta is a personal friend of Peter Lim and the prince is in turn the owner of the Valencia.
At Johor played too Pablo Aimar, when the team was trained by Cesar Ferrando, and also Dani Güiza. It has been photographed with Cristiano Ronaldo and it was also common for the prince to organize parties and barbecues and invite world stars to visit his facilities, such as the ‘Little Witch’ Go
crept. Like he invited stars of the Polo coming from Argentina The South Africa since he is a lover of horses. He owns more than a hundred, as well as luxury cars.
To give another example, in 2018 an advertisement was made in which the new kits of the Malaysian club were announced with Rivaldo, Hernan Crespo Y Alessandro Nesta as protagonists.
One of his most successful coaches was the former player of the Spanish
Raúl Longhi, who arrived in May 2015 as an assistant to Mario Gomez (ex Mallorca and ex Valencia as second) and later became first coach. He won nine titles until he left in the summer of 2018: four Superleagues, the Malaysian Cup, the FA Cup, the Charity Shield there, the AFC Asian Cup and the Malaysian Super Cup.
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