Ronaldo to BenQ Mobile: I wanna get paid

by Brian White posted Mar 29th 2007 at 11:19PM

Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo has a beef to pick with BenQ Mobile, a sponsor of the Real Madrid soccer team. The problem? BenQ Mobile has filed bankruptcy and Ronaldo wants his, umm, cash. While we're quite sure celebrity endorsements are fine and dandy, perhaps Ronaldo's contract should have stipulated payment up front. Regardless, the European soccer sensation is looking for at least 20 percent of what he agreed to in the BenQ Mobile endorsement contract. With former employees of BenQ Mobile sitting on the bench with owed monies as well, Ronaldo may be waiting a while for his cut.

[Via I4U News, thanks to Ali and Number_42 for the corrections]

Tags: Benq, BenQ Mobile, BenQ Siemens, BenqMobile, BenqSiemens, Culture, Siemens Mobile, SiemensMobile

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Ali @ Mar 29th 2007 11:37PM

Jeez...Ronaldo is Brazilian, not Spanish. He played in Real Madrid for a while, and now he's in Italy playing for AC Milan.
Just my two cents.

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Number_42 @ Mar 30th 2007 12:59AM

Exactly.
Thanks for posting that. I was about to.....

Also its Real and not Readl

Proof reading helps...

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Emad hassan kenona @ Apr 10th 2007 11:28AM

Nice to see you Ronaldo .i like to be rich like you

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