The Story of A Child's Melancholy The Ruler of Modern Football Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro or better known by the name Cristiano Ronaldo is a footballer who was born in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Ronaldo is the son of Jose Dinis Aveiro and Maria Dolores do Santos. Before Ronaldo was born, the couple Dinis and Dolores already had three children. They are Hugo, Elma and Katia.

Ronaldo was born at the Cruz de Carvalho Hospital on February 5, 1985, at 10:20 am local time. He was born with a length of 52 cm and weighs 4.5 kg. Because of the very close distance between the birth of Katia and Ronaldo, Dinis and Dolores were confused to give a name for this fourth child.

Then, because Dinis who worked as a park attendant in the city hall, and Dolores who worked as a cook was so impressed with the President of the United States during the 1981-1989 period, Ronald Reagan, the name Ronaldo emerged.

That same day, Ronaldo was immediately baptized in the Church of Santo Antonio. At that time, Ronaldo's father asked the captain of CF club Andorinho, an amateur club in Portugal, namely Fernao Barros Sousa to be godfather to the child.

In a way, Ronaldo's childhood was not as fortunate as other children. His melancholy story begins when he almost died in the womb. This was revealed after the mother intended to abort while still not breathing world air.

This was conveyed directly by the mother of Ronaldo, Dolores, who claimed to have almost aborted his child while still in the womb. As is known, Ronaldo comes from underprivileged families.

According to him, giving birth to Ronaldo would only add to the burden on the family. Even so, Dolores was in fact unable to carry out his intention to abort Ronaldo. In the end, he continued to care for his womb and gave birth to the prospective world star.

In 2005, his father died as a result of consuming too much alcohol. Two years later, Ronaldo's mother also suffered from breast cancer, but he continued to struggle until he recovered.

When his father died from consuming too much alcohol, Ronaldo felt very sad. The loss of a father who was known to be hard at bone because he came from a mediocre family at the age of 20 years, made him not want to repeat the stupid mistakes of his father.

Therefore, CR7 avoids alcoholic drinks on the grounds that he does not want his traumatic feelings to be repeated because of his beloved father.

Little Ronaldo lives with limitations. His parents could not even afford to buy Ronaldo a cheap toy. Ronaldo started his elementary school education at Escola Basica e Secundaria Goncalves Zarco. When studying at school, Ronaldo was not interested in academics. He prefers to be outside the room and play ball.

Because he really didn't like school, Ronaldo never even did his homework. He prefers to develop his talent in processing the round leather.

Knowing the child's talents and interests, his father then enrolled Ronaldo at Andorinha's soccer school in Funchal, where the father also worked part-time as a kitman at the club.

Right at the age of eight, Ronaldo started playing for Andorinha's youth team. He was nicknamed as an ambitious and vulnerable boy because he often cried when his team lost.

At the age of 14, Ronaldo was expelled from school after receiving an incident with his teacher. At that time, Ronaldo threw a chair at the teacher after receiving undue treatment. Ronaldo considers that his teacher did not show an attitude of respect and ridicule that has aspirations to become a soccer player.

After the incident, Ronaldo really did not continue his education and preferred to focus on deepening the science of football. Ronaldo trained hard and wanted to prove to his teacher that he could succeed with football.

But after undergoing too much training, Ronaldo had suffered from a serious illness. His career journey almost stopped at the age of 15 years because he had to get on the operating table. At that time, Ronaldo had tachycardia, in which his heart beat was more than 100 beats per minute

Ronaldo's mother, Maria Dolores, told how he was so worried about the life of his beloved son when convicted with a heart disorder. Dolores anxiety is not without reason. Heart disease is indeed often a disaster for footballers in parts of the world.

What eased Dolores's anxiety was Ronaldo's unyielding attitude. He did not actually take heart disease seriously even though the people around him were very worried.

Sure enough, the universe really loves Ronaldo. After undergoing intensive care, Ronaldo finally recovered and was able to undergo normal sporting activities.

In 1995, Ronaldo joined a local club, Nacional, located in the area of ​​his residence, Madeira. After being considered an extraordinary talent, Ronaldo underwent training for three days at Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon, which the club was interested in recruiting.

Ronaldo's journey to be recruited Sporting Lisbon is unique and heartwarming. Is Albert Fantrau. Reportedly, Fantrau and Ronaldo are two close friends who have the ability to process the round leather. He is credited with paving the way for CR7 to enter selection at the Sporting Lisbon club academy.

The beginning of the story begins when the talent scouts come to the junior competition event, there also play Fantrau and Ronaldo who are in a team.

The monitoring of the talent scout was pursed to two names, Ronaldo and Fantrau. The coach then promised to only choose one player to enter the Sporting Lisbon academy. The condition is that the player must score more goals against the opponent's goal.

Ronaldo scored the first goal, then Fantrau scored the second goal. The story that quite moved many people was the closing goal of the attacker's duo team's 3-0 victory.

Fantrau then had a golden opportunity to score and only had to deal with the opposing goalkeeper. Not far from his position there is Ronaldo who ran free.

Instead of kicking the ball into the goal, Fantrau passes the ball to Ronaldo. The third goal was scored by the player born in the Madeira Islands.

Ronaldo scored two goals and Fantrau was only one. CR7 was eventually recruited to the Sporting Lisbon academy according to the coach's promise.

When asked why he was willing to do that was because Fantrau believed that Ronaldo had abilities that exceeded him.

That way, Ronaldo made it into the team and debuted in 1997.

After successfully entering the first team, his performance was more brilliant. Ronaldo impresses many parties including the English giants Manchester United.

When Sporting Lisbon faced Manchester United in 2003, Sir Alex Ferguson was very impressed with Ronaldo's performance. Without thinking, Fergie immediately recruited the magical boy in the same year.

Ronaldo himself also admitted, Sir Alex Ferguson had an important role in his move to Old Trafford.

Ronaldo's game was first seen by Ferguson when Manchester United played a friendly against Sporting Lisbon in the summer of 2003. In that match, Ronaldo brought Sporting a 3-1 win over the Red Devils.

Surprisingly, Ronaldo became a major problem for Manchester United's rearguard, especially John O'Shea who was assigned to escort him. During halftime, O'Shea reportedly threw up in the dressing room because of fatigue escorting Ronaldo and had to receive medical care.

Since joining Manchester United, Ronaldo's name slowly began to be known to the public. The Portuguese player was an important MU player at the time.

In his first year with Manchester United, Ronaldo scored successfully and led United to win the FA Cup final match.

During the Manchester United uniform, Ronaldo mejelma became the world's best player and status as an icon of the club.

In 196 appearances with the red devil, Ronaldo has packed 84 goals and successfully donated 3 Premier League titles, 1 European Champions League trophy, up to 1 World Club Cup. Labeled the world's best player with a myriad of achievements, Ronaldo attracts the interest of Spanish giants, Real Madrid.

But please note that before officially docked at Old Trafford, Ronaldo was almost in Liverpool uniform. In fact, CR7 claimed that he could very easily go to Anfield in 2003.

Ronaldo claimed to really admire Liverpool. For him, the Reds are the most successful team in the UK. However, Gerard Houllier who handled Liverpool at that time refused to bring Ronaldo to Anfield.

He is not too sure whether Ronaldo, who was 19 at the time, could have a significant impact on Liverpool's game.

After wading season after season with Manchester United, right in 2009, he was carried off by Real with the status as the most expensive player in the world.

Together with the club from the city of Madrid, his performance is much developed.

Ronaldo is the team's mainstay in all competitions and successfully scored hundreds of goals. Not only that, he also donated a prestigious row of trophies to a team based in the Santiago Bernabeu. Among them, La Liga, Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup, European Champions League, European Super Cup, to the Inter Club World Cup trophy.

Then, Ronaldo also successfully collected various individual titles. The most striking is of course the title Ballon D’or.

Not only successful at club level, Ronaldo also triumphed when competing with the Portuguese national team. Following several major tournaments, Ronaldo finally succeeded in donating the European Cup trophy for Portugal in 2016 and the UEFA Nations League in 2019.

In addition, Ronaldo is also listed as an active player who is able to score 100 goals for his national team. This achievement feels extraordinary considering that not many world-class players are able to reach that number.

Success on the field does not necessarily make Ronaldo big-headed. He still routinely donates his blood to people in need and often send aid to Negri who are in need of help.

Ronaldo was noted to have donated part of his wealth to the victims of the Aceh tsunami. The tsunami disaster in Aceh gave its own meaning in Ronaldo's life. The tragedy that occurred in December 2004 really made Ronaldo more sensitive to helping others.

At that time, Ronaldo was intrigued to see a child who survived the disaster. Martunis, the child's name, is wearing a Portuguese national team jersey. Ronaldo then took time to come to Indonesia after the disaster which claimed hundreds of thousands of victims.

His arrival was at the same time to raise funds. The player born in Madeira wants to participate in helping the rehabilitation of victims and rebuilding Aceh.

In early February 2013, Ronaldo was even willing to become an ambassador for Save the Children. The organization is active in helping the lives of children in various parts of the world. Ronaldo spearheaded the fight against hunger and campaigned for activities, as well as healthy eating patterns for children.

Most recently, he was said to have contributed a total of 1.5 million USD to the Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip, during the month of Ramadan.

The donation was claimed as a form of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians in the Gaza strip.

Donations for residents in the Gaza strip themselves are not the first for Ronaldo. In November 2012 when Gaza was bombarded by Israel, CR7 was reported to have provided humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians. The donation itself came from the Golden Shoe auction. The Portuguese player was also said to be more pro-Palestinian than Israel.

Especially in 2013, Ronaldo was caught on camera refusing to exchange jerseys with one of the Israeli national team players in the 2014 World Cup qualifying matches in the European zone.

After success with el Real, Ronaldo looked for new challenges by flying to Italy to join Juventus. Judged unable to shine, Ronaldo instead appeared extraordinary by successfully contributing the Serie A title and the Italian Super Cup for the Old Lady in her first season.

As a super popular player, Ronaldo already has many side businesses. He also has a hotel and museum that is devoted to exhibiting everything about him.

In fact, Ronaldo will open its newest hotel in Morocco, North Africa. Precisely in the elite area of ​​M Avenue, which is in Marrakech. The plan, the construction of the hotel will take place in 2019 and will be completed in 2020. Reportedly, the hotel will have 168 rooms, 2 restaurants, a fitness center, swimming pool and spa.

It did not say how much the CR7 spent to build the hotel. But certainly, the hotel which will also be named Pestana CR7 will have Moroccan-themed themes and well-known African culture.

Noted as one of the richest athletes. Ronaldo has collaborated with various world-famous products. Ronaldo's wealth is estimated at 614 million USD or around 8.4 trillion rupiah.

Wealth is certainly not free from some products that use his services. There are a total of about 31 products that have or are still sponsoring Ronaldo today, with Nike reportedly the biggest contributor, which is around 412 billion annually.

In his personal life, Ronaldo had a relationship with several women, including famous model from Russia, Irina Shayk. But the relationship between them foundered after Irina reportedly showed no respect for Ronaldo's mother.

That way, Ronaldo finally combined love with a sexy woman named Georgina Rodriguez. Until now, Ronaldo has been blessed with four children named Cristiano Ronaldo Jr., Alana Martina dos Santos Aveiro, Eva Maria Dos Santos, and Mateo Ronaldo.

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