Already retired from professional football, Leonardo Ponzioformer player of Riverdedicates a good part of his time to agricultural production, and in that he considered that not liquidating the harvest is “the best thing” even when the government decided to encourage producers with a new “soy dollar”. “Not liquid, I look for the market that is best for methe country makes you be like that, it’s not that I don’t want foreign currency to come in, “said the former Millionaire idol.
Likewise, Ponzio recognized the “benefits” of being an agricultural entrepreneur in the country and assured: “It would be very foolish to say that it is not feasible to be a farmer in Argentina, the truth is that I cannot complain, But it depends on the weather and how the country is. I feel that the countryside is a great engine for our country”.
On the other hand, the former River captain hinted that he would like to venture into politics, but that he first aims to continue to be linked to football professionally. “I still don’t have the courage. It would cost me, today I don’t have the courage, but age is leading you to do things. First I want to experience the world of football and then my head will surely open up”.
Ponzio’s statements took place shortly after the Ministry of Economy, headed by Sergio Massa, made the decision to apply a dollar to a value of $200 for exporters to liquidate their grains and the Central Bank can strengthen its reserves, within the framework of Argentina’s compliance with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other creditors.
The former River is one of the best-known rural entrepreneurs in the town of Las Rosas, in Santa Fe. According to what he told in different interviews, it is a family tradition that he always enjoyed and that in fact he played soccer to be able to buy fields because he always knew that a part of him wanted that lifestyle.
“My grandfather always told me that I had to get into the field, and the truth was that I liked it, but you had to invest an entire estate,” he recalled.