FORMER Real Madrid ace Cristiano Ronaldo is on a mission to open a string of hair transplant clinics, with more in the pipeline after the one in Spain's capital and the second branch in Marbella.
Cristiano Ronaldo with his fifth Ballon d'Or in 2017, when he still played for Real Madrid
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The Portuguese striker, who now plays for Juventus and lives with his Spanish girlfriend, model Georgina Rodríguez, in Torino, north-western Italy, is the major shareholder in Insparya group, which has just bought out the chain Saúde Viável ('Viable Health') in the multiple Ballon d'Or winner's native country.
This means he now owns Insparya clinics in Madrid, Marbella, and five in Portugal – in Lisbon, Braga, two in Oporto, and one on the Algarve.
The Madrid centre has been open since 2019, and the Marbella branch – the creation of which was announced a month ago – is on the urbanisation Lomas del Río Verde in the 'Golden Mile'.
It is equipped with 15 operating theatres in addition to treatment rooms, consultation rooms and doctors' surgeries, and is due to open some time in August.
A team of 100 professionals, including doctors and nurses, led by Insparya's chief clinical officer Dr Carlos Portinha, will be based there.
Until recently, hair transplants were difficult to come by, and the majority of those who wanted to have this procedure – mainly, but not exclusively, men suffering from male pattern baldness including receding hairlines – had to travel to Turkey, where such clinics are in abundance.
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