Termination of his contract with Manchester United. Crazy offer from Saudi Arabia. Golden Shoe award he has received many times. His private life and his leadership in social aid projects. And now the World Cup! Everyone is talking about Ronaldo these days. So who is he really?
Cristiano Ronaldo made history with the 2022 World Cup played in Qatar. He managed to score in five consecutive World Cups. Currently the only player with this title. The tournaments in which Ronaldo has scored are: 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022…
Just when this was going to be talked about, the public was shaken by a completely different news: Saudi Arabian team Al Nassr made such an offer to Cristiano Ronaldo, who left Manchester United, that his lips went numb. The fact that Al Nassr increased the offer he made to the Portuguese star to 300 million Euros for 2 years must be an indication that he now has other adjectives than a football icon.
So, Ronaldo, how did he become Ronaldo? Why did his mother hang the washing machine given to them from the ceiling? How did the locals react on the wall of the neighboring house while practicing with the punctured ball? When and by whom was it first discovered? How did he climb the steps? What distinguishes it from others?
Let's take a look at what is hidden behind that glorious life from yesterday to today...
Vagrant Ideas
February 5th… What an ordinary date. Just like March 6, July 7 or November 8… What could change between these dates…
It's not that simple.
It is not known whether the stars and planets have an effect now; The February 5 page of football history is very crowded. Let's list a few: Cesare Maldini, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Gheorghe Hagi, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Neymar…
The star we know as Ronaldo, but whose identity card says Cristiano Ronaldo Messias Dos Santos Aveiro, is one of the famous football players born on February 5 (1985).
He was born in Funchal, Portugal, in the Maderia Autonomous Region. Funchal is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, which has been part of Portugal since 1420, although it is closer to the African continent. The closest mainland to Funchal is Morocco, 650 km away.
Here is Ronaldo's life story, which is similar to a typical Yeşilçam story that ends with a “happy ending” and is full of surprises, all of which begin on a 76-square-kilometer area.
Your Mother's Place
Cooking is a difficult craft... Especially if you smell of hunger, but if you're cooking for tourists who give away what you earn in a year for a meal.
Maria Dolores Dos Santos was one such person. She was young, beautiful, but supremely poor. She was doing everything she could, but she was ambitious as a cook. A eater was eating his food once, once again. However, what they earned was not enough… She was going to clean the houses of the rich islanders in her spare time from cooking. It would be unfair to put the entire responsibility of the family of 6 on the father, Jose Dinis Aveiro. As an honorable mother, she couldn't afford it.
Fear of being unemployed was not so high before Ronaldo, who was born as the fourth child in the family. Living with her two daughters (Elma Aveiro, Liliana Catia Aveiro) and a son (Hugo Aveiro), they certainly did not have a rosy life. It didn't cost much to put an extra bowl on the table either. It wasn't there either… He couldn't explain it to his heart.
The house they stayed in was so small that even the word “small” was too big in the description: a bedroom that ends in three steps, a living room a little bigger than that—it was the children's bedroom at night—and a kitchen where it is impossible for two people to move at the same time. their plaster has fallen off, the paint has run off; A house surrounded by a human-sized wall! A house on the slope of Rua da Quinta do Falcao…
But the remedy was inexhaustible for strong women. For example, why would washing machines necessarily be in the bathroom, kitchen or hall… Well, they could have been on the ceiling of the living room. Yes, on the ceiling of the hall… Right next to the light bulb…
However, the savings made in the placement of goods only facilitated the use of the space. It did not prevent hunger. Even staying in this narrow house would have been a luxury for them, even without the limited salary of their father, Jose Dinis Aveiro, who worked as a gardener in the municipality. Moreover, in addition to the income of the father, there was also a lump-sum that grew day by day: alcohol!
Ronaldo became Ronaldo
"Life is full of surprises!" sentence is true most of the time. Sometimes life begins when you think it's over.
Perhaps it was the first of the surprises that would come in a row when the second daughter of Maria Dolores-Jose Dinis couple, Lilliana Catia, was born in this period when hunger and pain were eaten in the middle of nowhere.
The Aveiro family had risen from the poverty line to the poverty line when the father, Jose Dinis, brought an additional three or five cents to the gardener's salary.
Still, Jose Dinis needed a “third” job besides materialism. Another problem that he could not find a solution for: time. ⁷It was so obvious that Jose Dinis would not find time even if he found a job. Because he was given the responsibility of many teams playing in the local leagues. The children had to fix the soccer shoes they wore during the matches, wash the jerseys, clean the locker rooms, and carry bags and balls to the field.
Therefore, he had to let his wife, Maria Dolores, work in an oceanfront restaurant, sometimes as a cook and sometimes as a dishwasher, even though he did not desire it.
Ronaldo 6 months old
The calendars showed August 1985; Those were the days when the sun scorched everyone regardless of language, religion or race. Little Ronaldo, who took his name from the American film actor and president Ronald Reagan, was only 6 months old.
Every baby that comes into the world comes with its share. The poor people of Funchan used to believe this. No one could get more sustenance than their share here. However, when he was born, things went wrong. Because she wanted constant care and attention, her mother had to constantly steal time from work. This meant that the bites were even smaller.
“If you desire something very much, it will come true!” This was a big lie that maximum peoples in the world believed. The kind of lie they call the bruise consolation. Whereas the Aveiro family did not want a triplex with a pool, a garden and fifteen servants in it. His wish was for small, tiny things: A life full of stomach. Health and education services on equal terms… A house to lay their heads on. Even when they had these, they were willing to work hard. Laziness was not for them.
But life didn't quite fit the script written by the poor. He served the disease when it hit his head, hunger when his appetite was high… Not to mention unemployment… Not to mention the insults for three cents… It was necessary to “tear” to reach a certain point. But how? Life was not a fairy tale so that something like Aladdin's magic lamp appeared in front of them and three wishes were granted to them.
When a person is in such a whirlpool, he makes an effort five times, ten times more than normal to get rid of it, right? This did not apply to Jose Dinis. He wasn't lazy, but he didn't keep his distance from the drink either. He was stealing from the food that was going to go to his children's crotch, and he was drinking sometimes secretly and sometimes in public. Getting along with a drinking father was not easy for either the mother or the children. That's why all hell broke loose in the family.
Early Maturation
It was as if Ronaldo's experiences were ingrained in his subconscious… It was as if he had begun to experience things at an early age. Like he had to hold on to tear it off first.
Maybe because of this, he started to run away from home every now and then, when he was only three years old… Let alone running, the colt was still standing and was barely walking. But even that did not prevent him from escaping from the house.
However, the uphill and downhill running sessions that she saw as games were the embodiment of suffering for her older sisters. They had to find a solution, but what?
Before long, an idea came to her sister Lilian Catia's mind, albeit an ingenious one: a ball… Either plastic or leather, but a ball…
Admittedly, football history has even seen giant football players growing up with balls made of guts. Balls made of old rags… Balls made of men's socks stuffed with wool… That's why Lilian Catia's idea was an innocent and useful one.
Indeed, it gave results. Little Ronaldo's enthusiasm for the slope turned into a ball in an instant. Inside the house, that wall is yours, this wall is mine. Now he was almost lying with the ball and getting up with the ball. Moreover, he was hitting the ball like no one else did. But why?
The revolt of the whitewash between the var and the nonexistent. The lamp, vase, coffee table leg that broke into pieces. The people of the house were fed up. The ball was tiny, Ronaldo was tiny, but his results were huge.
Fortunately, a solution was quickly found for this: The empty land next to the house… What they call urban transformation did not come to this district of Madeira.
Creative genius in the poor neighborhood
Days chased days, weeks followed weeks… With the ball, Ronaldo became like nails with meat. The ball didn't do a thing or two… It was stopping, turning, jumping and running. Moreover, without getting tired of…
It wasn't just the ball that accepted his football license. There was another one and that person was not far away from the duo who perform every day on this vacant lot. We are talking about Abel Junior. The creative genius in this poor neighborhood in Bairro Santo Antonio. The infrastructure coach of Nacional Funchal.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo's school age had arrived. He was taking three things to school: school bag + lunch box + ball…
You know, when children put a pacifier in their mouths to keep them quiet... Ronaldo "as long as he reads!" He was allowed to go to school with the ball under his arm. Because both his mother and father used their preferences in favor of reading.
However, fate had already knitted its webs… The seed of football that fell into him at the age of 3 had already sprung up in Ronaldo… He even tolerated school for football. They agreed like that: How many schools, so much football.
Ronaldo also had a nickname: Cry! He cried when his teammates didn't pass him. He cried when he missed a goal. He used to cry when he couldn't play as he wanted. He cried when his assists did not result in a goal. It was an unmixed cry.
His neighbor and first trainer, Abel Junior, saw the greatness in this tiny heart early and helped him mature, albeit indirectly.
Truth is Bitter
Cristiano Ronaldo only saw his father's true face when he was 10 years old.
That day, after a hard workout, Ronaldo entered the locker room a few minutes before the other kids. As soon as he entered, he could not believe his eyes at the sight he saw. His father lay long, motionless on the stretcher where the actors lay down to get massages.
For a moment she thought her father was exhausted and said to her, "Daddy, if you're done, let's go home." he shook. However, Jose Dinis was in no mood to hear Ronaldo or anyone else. Little Ronaldo got flustered, panicked and started running left and right, not knowing what to do.
Seeing him in this state, an officer said, “Ronaldo, what's wrong with you? What are you running around like crazy?" he grabbed her arm.
Ronaldo said, “My father… Something happened to my father. It lies motionless inside.” he could say though.
The attendant entered the dressing room without waiting and tried to shake Jose Dinis several times to wake him up. Despite all the efforts, Jose Dinis had no intention of waking up. The attendant did the best thing to do and notified the club doctor.
Entering the locker room with a first aid kit in hand, the club doctor said, "Empty this place now!" he said and began to examine Jose Dinis. Then he said, “You all know this man. There's nothing to fuss about. He had too much to drink.” said.
First years – first enthusiasm – first transfer
For Cristiano Ronaldo, football was the reason to live. He was the most outstanding player in his age group that season. Naturally, his success did not go unnoticed by Madeira's two big clubs, Maritimo and National, and they started working to sign him.
Hard times had begun for Cristiano Ronaldo, but it was more of a challenge of indecision than of boredom. Because the two clubs that aspired him were well-established and well-known clubs. However, Maritimo was a richer club than National, and Maritimo managers were printing and buying any football player they wanted.
In one of those troubled days, Cristiano Ronaldo felt the need to talk to his father. As Jose Dinis dozed off in front of the television, Cristiano Ronaldo, sitting next to him, said, “Daddy…” “As you know, there are two clubs that want me and I don't want to leave my current club. If I have to leave, I don't know which one I should go to. Can you help me?"
Staring sleepily at his son, Jose Dinis coughed a few times and cleared his throat, then said, "Don't think I didn't think about it..." “I've been thinking about this for days, but I couldn't make a decision either. It's really hard to decide on this. I think you should discuss this with your trainer tomorrow. He will make the right decision for you.”
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