Hey steemit and steemians just wanna talk about a story about my favorite player ....☆CR7☆
Well a fact and a true life story about CR7.........The story of a friend who made him who he is today
but before that...currently CR7 is the world best player and the richest player if am correct .
He is also the highest goal scorer of all time in Real Madrid having 451 Goals tallies with Real Madrid.
He has played 9 seasons ..... also won 19 titles in Real Madrid
CR7 full name .......Cristiano Ronaldo Dos Santos has a net worth £250 million ($321.5 million). Ronaldo is paid £19 million ($24.4 million) a year. Well Ronaldo gets paid £5 million less than Messi ........ he has far more sponsors........majorly Ronaldo is a human billboard for a global portfolio of sponsor...... like Nike, Tag Heuer, and Armani. He also has his own CR7 brand which sells aftershave and clothes.
Am not here to say he is better then any other player but behind all this success there is one touching story .....
But before that story want to go back to the .........Early life
Cristiano Ronaldo was born on February 5, 1985, in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a little island off the western coast of the country.
Born and raised on the Portuguese island of Madeira,Ronaldo was the youngest of four children born to Maria Dolores dos Santos and Jose Dinis Aveiro. He was also named after Ronald Reagan........one of his father's favorite actors.
Ronaldo grew up in a hardworking neighborhood..... He said they had a small tin-roofed home that had a view of the ocean......... Ronaldo was introduced to the game of soccer through his dad, his dad worked as an equipment manager at a boy's club. His early life was shaped by hardship, as his father often drank too much. To help keep the children fed and maintain some financial stability, Ronaldo's mother worked as a cook and cleaning person.
By the time he was 10 years old, Ronaldo was already recognized as a phenomenon........ all he did was eat sleep and play soccer. "All he wanted to do as a boy was play football," his godfather, Fernao Sousa, recalled for British reporters, adding,□He loved the game so much he'd miss meals or escape out of his bedroom window with a ball when he was supposed to be doing his homework.□
By his early teens, Ronaldo joined the Sporting Lisbon academy at the age of 11. His talent grew fast.
According to Ronaldo......He said,he remembered his time "I heard one of the kids say to another kid, “Did you see what he did? This guy is a beast.” I started hearing it all the time. Even from the coaches. Then somebody would always say, yeah but it’s a shame he’s so small.
He said he was skinny and had no muscle,so he decide he was going to get bigger and faster. He started sneaking out of the dormitory at night to go work out finally he got bigger and faster and better then before,I would walk onto the field, and the people who used to whisper, “Yeah, but he’s so skinny”?...... and ge will be like ...... YEAH
After a stint with Nacional da liha da Madeira..... His talent and skill became better,but Ronaldo was diagnosed with a racing heart at age 15...... which he underwent an operation to treat his condition and he signed with Sporting Portugal in 2001 and began his senior club career playing for Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United at age 18 in 2003
The contract with Manchester United
In 2001, when Cristiano Ronaldo was just 16 years old, Manchester United paid more than £12 million to sign him a record fee for a player of his age. Ronaldo had turned heads with a wonder and memorable performance with Portugal against Manchester, wowing even his opponents with his footwork and deft skill......... He made such an impression that a number of United
players asked their manager to try and sign the young player, which the team soon did.
Ronaldo showed the world his best and kept on giving more and more ......... He showed his promise early on in the 2004 FA Cup final, scoring the team's first three goals and helping them capture the championship. In 2007, Ronaldo signed a five-year, £31 million contract. A year later, Ronaldo again justified his high salary when he put together one of the club's finest seasons in history, having a record of 42 goals scored, and earning himself the FIFA World Player of the Year honor for 2008. In all, Ronaldo helped steer Manchester United to three premier league titles.
The movement to Real Madrid
In 2009, the Spanish soccer club Real Madrid agreed to pay Manchester United a record $131 million for the chance to sign Ronaldo.
Ronaldo’s commitment to Manchester United had come under constant question, and speculation swirled that he wanted to play elsewhere, people werent surprised to see Ronaldo leave.
Because his fame ... talent .... skill ..... and performance became one of a kind.
He said I know that they are going to demand a lot of me to be successful at the club and I know that I'm going to have much more pressure than at Manchester United because I was there for many years," Ronaldo told reporters. "But it means a new challenge and is going to help me be the best footballer."
THE MAIN STORY OF CRISTIANO RONALDO AND
ALBERT FANTRAU ●(TRUE FRIENDSHIP)●
This is a one of a kunf story,according to reports Albert Fantrau was and is still a close friend of Ronaldo.
Moments after Real Madrid Football Club won their 10th UEFA Champions League trophy in 2014, the global audience and thousands of football fans at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon were taken by surprise when Cristiano Ronaldo abandoned the team's celebration and ran to a section of the stand to pull out a man from the crowd and hug him affectionately.
The action made the public confessed and shocked but Ronaldo had to honour his childhood clubmate who 'sacrificed himself’ and allowed the Portuguese star to become a global icon today. Ronaldo said in an interview he granted some years ago that he and his friend were vying for a spot in an academy of Andorinha in Funchal, Madeira.
During an under 18 championship.... they played in the same team,so a scout came around and he said that, Whoever scores more goals in this match will come into our academy.
Ronaldo said they won that match 3-0. He scored the first goal then Albert scored the second with a great header. But the third goal was impressive for all of us. Albert was one-on-one against the goalkeeper, he rounded the goalkeeper and I was running in front of him.
A childhood photo of CR7 and albert.
“All he had to do was to score that goal but he passed it to me and I scored the third goal, so I got that spot and went to the academy.
“After the match I went to him and asked him why? Albert said that “Because you (Ronaldo) are better than me.
Journalists still had to confirm by asking Albert........If it was a true story. He said yes. He also said that his career as a player after the match ended and
now is unemployed. “But how did you build this house so great, you have a car? You seem like a rich man. You also able keep your family. From where
did this come from?
Albert proudly replied: “It is from Ronaldo!”
Looking at it .... just a goal made a great star,Albert could have called the goal but he gave it to Ronaldo
The ultimate sacrifice made by Albert Fantrau sealed Ronaldo's fate for the rest of his life and guaranteed him a meal ticket.
His determination kept him going and making him break more records,win more titles.
In January 2017, Ronaldo won FIFA's 2016 best player of the year for the fourth time, beating out FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Ronaldo’s 2016 wins included the European Championship, Champions League, and Club World Cup, plus individual awards from UEFA and France Football magazine, Ronaldo said: "2016 was the best year of my career."
Currently Real Madrid were crowned the UEFA champions league winners 2018.
And Ronaldo witnessed another one for the thrid time in a roll,all thanks to a FRIEND .... ALBERT
I end with a quote "You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
Thank you.
