20h46 – Transfer: Ronaldo to Juve, in the name of ambition

33 years old, 5 gold balls, and a third major European championship to be tamed: superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has just taken the football world a step back by joining Tuesday Italy and Juventus Turin for a final challenge, symbol of his boundless ambition

"I thought a lot" and "I think the time has come to open a new stage in my life", said CR7, in a letter published by the merengue club late afternoon

To bring the Portuguese international star, the Italian club announced that it would pay 100 million euros to Real.

Ronaldo is now engaged for four years with Juve, that is until June 30, 2022. An arrival already welcomed by the Milan Stock Exchange, where the title of Juventus closed up 5.71% Tuesday night , having jumped 37.7% since June 28, the date when the first rumors appeared.

Haloed of all his titles, Ronaldo could have quietly stay in Madrid, where he definitely put the world at his feet with four gold balls and four Champions League, to slip slowly to a happy retirement.

But it would have been poorly known the personality of the child prodigy of world football, workaholic and monster of ambition. To satisfy him again, he explains in the letter broadcast Tuesday to have "asked the (Real Madrid) to accept (s) transfer" to the champion of Italy.

The itinerary of the native of Funchal, on the the island of Madeira, is indeed that of a bulimic superstar. "I want seven children and as many Golden Balls," he said again last November, after receiving his 5th trophy, which allowed him to return to the height of his eternal rival, Lionel Messi.

Only Cristiano Ronaldo is capable of such a declaration, deaf to criticism of his excessive ambition and ego

"That means that I do not intend to stop there. I hope to win everything I can win, "he continued then.

Since then, there has been a new Champions League with Real, and the disappointment of an elimination in the Round of 16 of the World Cup

– 'More Powerful and More Important' –

The general public has always witnessed a mixture of admiration and rejection. He remains one of the best players on the planet and one of the most hated. "If I had a player like me, I will extend for at least ten years," he had launched in September 2016 in all modesty. "Because I am rich, I am handsome, I am a great player, people are jealous of me," he was hitting in 2011.

The multi-millionaire had shocked Spain in crisis in the summer of 2012 in saying "sad" of his fate at Real, before resigning a mirobolant contract the following year until 2021. Florentino Perez, president of Real who finally agreed to let go, then launched that Cristiano is "much more powerful and more important than all those (we at Real) who are here. "

CR7 is a diva, but also a workaholic. Born into a modest family, mocked for his strong accent of Madeira when he left his native island for Lisbon at the age of 12, the unloved one bit down. And redoubled efforts.

In 2008, a first Champions League with Manchester United (2003-2009), culminating in his first Ballon d'Or, had already rewarded the explosion of this exceptional dribbler, trained in Sporting Portugal.

After a "galactic" transfer to Real in 2009 for 94 million euros, a world record at the time, the second C1 arrived in 2014 thanks to its 17 goals (new record), the third in 2016 with 16 goals from the Portuguese, then the fourth in 2017 with 12 goals (again best scorer), before a fifth this season.

And record after record, this fast and powerful winger (1.85 m, 80 kg ), skilful both feet and head, has become the top scorer in the history of Real Madrid, the Champions League and the Portuguese selection.

In 2016, Ronaldo also filled a void: finally winning a major trophy with Portugal as captain, the Euro-2016 in France, he became a national hero, closing the scar of the final of Euro-2004 lost at home.

– Carrying Mother and Airport –

What else can you ask for after five Golden Balls (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)? In the city, this god of the stadium with gominated hair displays a glitzy lifestyle and likes to show his muscular abs, his sparkling cars or his private jet on social networks.

Regarding private life, Ronaldo now appears alongside of a new companion, the Spanish Georgina Rodriguez, and her toddlers (four in total, Cristiano Junior and the twins Eva and Mateo, all three born to a surrogate mother, and Alana Martina he had with Georgina Rodriguez .

Business obliges, its image was declined in the form of a line of underwear and a perfume, as well as a museum to his glory in Madeira, where the airport was renamed to his name.

On his native island, a life-size statue reproduces his way of celebrating goals, arms outstretched and legs apart. And she already immortalizes the legend of a player who wants to be "the best of all time."

"When I stop my career, I will look at the statistics to see if I am among the best, and I will surely be there, "warns Cristiano Ronaldo often. Inimitable