Money, fame and recognition, all of which Ronaldo is full at the age of 32. However, few people know how CR7 experienced a miserable and deprived childhood.
Currently, Cristiano Ronaldo is enjoying a salary of £ 365,000 / week. He has a luxury apartment worth $18.5 million in luxury Trump Tower and several other villas across Europe.
On social networks, the Portuguese player has up to 270 million followers, mentioning and admiring him every day. Considering his talent and personality, Ronaldo of course deserves it.
However, the road to that glory was not easy, CR7 had to spend his young years living in poverty and full of pressure. Even his mother, Dolores Aveiro, tried to prevent him from being born.
Ronaldo’s apartment in Trump tower. Photo: Daily Mail.
Fate gave Ronaldo life
One day in mid-1984, Mrs. Dolores suddenly noticed unusual changes in her body. The experience of three previous births helps the young woman know what is going on.
One more mouth to eat means that the family’s life has more meals to go hungry, the shack in the Funchal area will never be repaired. In the end, Mrs. Dolores made the decision to abort the unborn baby that would later become Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo and his mother, Dolores Aveiro. Photo: Getty Images.
In her autobiography published in July 2014, Dolores recounted how she went to a local clinic and asked the doctor to help fulfill her wish. Believing in God’s advice that every baby is a blessing, the kind doctor refused Dolores’ request.
Sneaking home but not giving up, the young woman continued to carry out a method suggested by her neighbours. She drank hot beer and danced for hours to damage the fetus in her belly. This time, Dolores still failed.
In tears, the mother decided to give birth to a fourth child. On February 5, 1985, a lovely boy was born with the name “Ronaldo” after President Ronald Reagan of the United States. Fate gave Ronaldo life and he turned his life into the dream of millions of others.
Ronaldo’s newly announced moments aged 16 As a young talent at the age of 16 at Sporting Lisbon, Ronaldo has partly demonstrated the qualities of a top star in the world.
A difficult childhood, being laughed at and ridiculed
The birth of more Ronaldo makes the financial situation of the Aveiro family even more difficult. His father, Jose Denis, in addition to gardening, has to ask for cleaning at some local establishments to earn extra income. However, things are still very bleak.
At that time, Ronaldo only knew how to find joy with the ball. He hates going to school. “I have no interest in going to school. In the end, I was expelled from school for throwing a chair at the teacher.” Ronaldo recounted in a statement to The Mirror.
Realizing her son’s playing qualities, Dolores convinced her husband to take him to the local Andorinha football team. The new environment is not easy for Ronaldo. He was ridiculed and ridiculed by all because of his father’s difficult circumstances, cleaning work and alcoholism. Some malicious claims even made up that his mother was a woman at the brothel.
Every time like that, Ronaldo cries. As reported by Ricardo Santos in Goal, who plays with CR7 at Andorinha: “I remember him as a shy kid. When he couldn’t pass the ball, he cried. When his teammates tease him, he cries too. Cristiano wants to win. When that didn’t happen, he burst into tears.”
Ronaldo while wearing Andorinha shirt. Photo: 101 Great Goals.
Ronaldo while wearing Andorinha shirt. Photo: 101 Great Goals.
And it was those tears that made Ronaldo make more and more efforts. He lingers later than most to shoot a few more shots or try a new move. Day by day, Ronaldo became the number 1 star in Andorinha. At the age of 10, Ronaldo caught the eye of the biggest club in the region, Nacional.
Here, Ronaldo continues to show his genius qualities. Former Nacional youth coach at the time, Pedro Talinhas, described Ronaldo as “a quick player, good with both feet and especially very technical”.
Constantly moving forward, Ronaldo became captain of the youth team at the age of 11 and played alongside those born a few years before him.
Move to the capital and journey to become a star
At the age of 12, Ronaldo’s life changed again. He decided to leave his family to go to Lisbon to practice. Here, the thick voice of the Madeira region makes Ronaldo lost and often becomes the focus of laughter. Therefore, Ronaldo decided to drop out of school and focus entirely on a single goal, which is football.
On the training ground of the Sporting Lisbon youth team, no one worked as hard as the slender Ronaldo.
His teammate, goalkeeper Christopher Pilar later recalled: “At that time, the academy had some very talented players. However, Ronaldo is the most different name because of what he shows before and after each training session. When it’s all over, he always stays for half an hour to practice the skills he doesn’t feel he’s mastered yet.”
Ronaldo has performed hundreds of thousands of times the most basic movements, so far, fans have been fascinated to see how he passed, turned the ball, bounced above all and finally finished. points to score.
Ronaldo in the first official match. Photo: BBC News.
The late Sporting coach Osvaldo Silva once likened the Portuguese superstar to a “diamond”. However, that diamond would not be able to shine brightly in the future without thousands of hours of honing on the football field, sweat, blood and tears of suffering.
To know the importance of hard work and effort in football, look to the story of Ronaldo and Quaresma – two close and very talented friends.
Ronaldo and Quaresma back at Sporting.
At the age of twenties, they are considered the two brightest stars of Sporting Lisbon. Quaresma with 2 years older was even noticed by his maturity and the number of goals he scored at that time.
In the summer of 2003, they both left their home countries to land on the giants of Europe. Ronaldo moved to the industrial city of Manchester, he still kept trying to become one of the best No 7s in the Red Devils after only 6 years of playing football.
As for Quaresma, he joined Barca. In Spain, the rigors of La Liga require much greater effort than it did at Sporting. However, Quaresma, a son of the capital, lived fully from a young age and played football with inspiration, could not adapt.
Stubborn nature, he refused to play under Frank Rijkaard. Then, Quaresma was pushed away, wandering through many teams but could not rise to the ranks of stars.
Up to now, no one dares to bring Quaresma “Golden Trash” to compare with Ronaldo. One person has won 4 Ballon d’Or and more than 20 major and minor titles.
Starting from a lower starting point, with effort, Ronaldo leveled all the difficulties and then surpassed his longtime best friend. Because of that, millions of CR7 fans are not only because of his talent on the pitch but also because of his spirit of overcoming difficulties.
“All the kids here (Madeira – Ronaldo’s hometown) dream of becoming Ronaldo. All without exception. However, there was never a second Ronaldo. Ronaldo will always have only one.” A sports worker in Madeira named Rui told Goal .
It is impossible to predict the future, however, it will be difficult to find a second Cristiano Ronaldo. Because his life is a strange story, a movie worth watching about a lucky boy who was born, thanks to his efforts, he overcame the great sadness of poverty to have many years later. Extremely happy month at Man United and Real Madrid.
