Football Legend Ronaldo to Rival Medina with New Wave Pool in Brazil

Football icon Ronaldo Nazário is the latest global sports star to enter Brazil’s rapidly growing wave pool scene — and, in doing so, becomes a symbolic “rival” to three-time world surfing champion Gabriel Medina, who is already a partner in another major wave pool project in São Paulo.

Ronaldo has been announced as a partner in the Reserva Beach Club, a high-end wave pool and lifestyle club set to be built in Alphaville, an upscale neighborhood on the outskirts of São Paulo. The project...