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Madrid – 33 years old, 5 gold balls, and a third major European championship to be tamed: superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has just taken the football world against the edge by joining Italy and Juventus Turin on Tuesday for one last challenge, symbol of his unlimited 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 club merengue late afternoon.
Crowned with all his titles, Ronaldo could have stayed quietly in Madrid, where he definitely put the world at his feet with four gold balls and four Champions League, to slip slowly towards a happy retirement.
But that would have been to misunderstand the personality of the child prodigy of world football, workaholic and monster of ambition. To satisfy him again, he explains in this letter that he " asked the (Real Madrid) to accept (s) one transfer " towards the Italian champion.
Ronaldo's itinerary is indeed that of a bulimic superstar. " I want seven children and as many Ballons d'Or ", he left 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, as long as I play, I will win all I can win ," he continued.
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.
The general public has always shown him 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 had tackled before in 2011.
The multi-millionaire had shocked Spain in crisis in the summer of 2012 saying " sad " of his fate at Real, before resigning a mirobolant contract the following year until 2021. Florentino Perez, president of the Real who finally agreed to the to let go, then launched that Cristiano is " much more powerful and more important than all those (we, at Real) who are here ".
– 'More powerful and more important' –
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 at Sporting Portugal.
After a transfer " galactic " to Real in 2009 for 94 million euros, 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 top scorer), before a fifth this season.
And record after record, this fast and powerful winger (1.85 m, 80 kg), skillful both feet like head, has become the absolute best scorer in the history of Real Madrid, the League champions 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 the 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.
On the private side, Ronaldo is now appearing alongside a new companion, the Spanish Georgina Rodriguez, and her toddlers (four in total, Cristiano Junior and the twins Eva and Mateo, all three born surrogate mother, and Alana Martina he had with Georgina Rodriguez).
Business requires, its image has been 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 its name .
On his native island, a life-size statue reproduces his way of celebrating goals, arms outstretched and legs apart. And it immortalizes already the legend of a player wishing 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 ", often warns Cristiano Ronaldo. Inimitable.
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