Kakha Kaladze, Moneyman

By: Martha | December 13th, 2007

Rino Gattuso breeds shellfish, Bobo Vieri and Paolo Maldini have a clothing line, Dejan Stankovic owns restaurants (I can’t find the websites, but just trust me on this one).

Football doesn’t last forever, so it’s only natural that players with two brain cells to rub together try to make sure they have something to keep them afloat when their knees give out and the bank account shrinks a bit. Milan’s Kakha Kaladze, however, is taking a slightly different approach: He’s trying to open a bank. This ain’t no crazy rumor, either — Kaladze has applied for a banking license in Georgia (the country, not the state), and will know within a month whether or not the Central Bank will let him go ahead with his plans.

I have no idea how one goes about opening your own bank, in Georgia or elsewhere, but it certainly can’t hurt Kaladze’s political ambitions to get a foot in the business world. Having a lot of money will help, too — I don’t know if banking actually makes people rich anymore, but it sure worked for the Medici family back in the day, and that whole political angle worked out awfully well for them, too. (Can you imagine a Pope Kaladze? They’d at least bring a bit of brooding darkness to the pointy hat.)

Category: AC Milan, Rumors & News, Serie A

Tags: AC Milan, banking, Kakha Kaladze, Rumors & News, Serie A

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• Marco |  December 13th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

  
  
  

  I’ll say Martha… I think you’re on to something here…

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• Abby |  December 13th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

  
  
  

  Rino breeds shellfish? Just when I think he can’t get any more oddly endearing…

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• George |  December 13th, 2007 at 6:59 pm

  
  
  

  Nah, most Georgians are Orthodox Christians.

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• George |  December 13th, 2007 at 7:02 pm

  
  
  

  So he can’t be Pope.

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• Martha |  December 14th, 2007 at 2:18 am

  
  
  

  Nice, Marco! If only we didn’t have George to bring us down with actual facts …

  (Isn’t it great, Abby? I love that his dad is apparently very hands-on with the running of it right now — clearly all the Gattusos are more than a little awesome.)

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• Gianfranco |  December 14th, 2007 at 5:18 am

  
  
  

  Martha, Mr. Kaladze also wants to get into politics, he is a proverbial post football renaissance man…

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• Martha |  December 14th, 2007 at 6:01 am

  
  
  

  Hence the bit in the post about his political ambitions, Gianfranco. (:

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• salome |  January 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

  
  
  

  i heard Kaladze owns a magazine in Ukrain and a restaurant in Georgia,
  wow he is doing it all!

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• Natalie |  April 28th, 2008 at 2:09 am

  
  
  

  Well, kaladze owns the Hotel, casino and magazine in UKrain, Restaurant in MIlan, Is planning to open a bank and the cultural-entertaining center in Georgia.
  He is a business mnded person…
  and I dont think tha the statue of pope-Being a spiritual father of millios of people deserves to be joking around

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